Posted on 10/14/2010 1:29:06 PM PDT by Niuhuru
Nineteen-year-old Rhoda Asimeng has dreamed of becoming a physician since she was 13. She helped care for her two parents, both of whom were diagnosed with cancer when she was a junior in high school. Her father died of pancreatic cancer in 2009. Her mother was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, which is now in remission.
"My parents having cancer, and really seeing what they have had to go through, I realized that helping somebody was something I really wanted to do," said Asimeng, now a pre-med sophomore at Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y. "I definitely want to become a doctor. That's what my calling is."
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I have no problem going to a doctor of any race as long as they have earned it. What I fear with O’s healthcare is that a percentage of medical school applicants will be this or that. If a certain category isn’t filled then the white students with 4.0’s will be dropped for another person with a 2.0 grade point average. Just a thought.
‘Creating Doctors’
Wow, cloning must have come a LONG way since the last time I checked in to it.
Yeah that is gonna happen. Just like a communist country where the more equal people were doctors.
Why isn’t the focus on producing Good Doctors...instead of selecting people by race or ethnicity?
Any sick person who says they won’t take treatment from a competent doctor because of race deserves to see their condition worsen until they either find their race-appropriate dream doctor, or they change their hard-headed minds.
Diversity should have absolutely nothing to do with it. It should be 100% based on whether or not it is likely that person will become a good physician. What’s the point in working to get good grades and test scores if in the end the decision regarding admission is based on some subjective criteria that is not based on aptitude and effort?
I’m going to be really frank: I LOVE diversity. At the clinic I go to, there is this REALLY CUTE Polish doctor I was assigned and I am quite bonkoid over him. Dazzling really. So cute.
Tactic for cost saving, where I live:
importing doctors from all racial, ethnic, nationality groups
There is a special title given to the medical student who graduates dead last in their medical class for any given year ...
That special title is ... ... Dr.
Give me doctors who are smarter than me, and make sure they aren’t Muslims. Color, ethnicity or even political lunacy don’t matter to me, although good character and maturity are a big plus.
Our education standards have been rolled back so minorities can even graduate high school this is down right scary! Now Imagine Michelle obama as a doctor for gods sake.
“Medical school efforts to attract more minorities have been hindered by myriad factors, including a small pool of applicants and socioeconomic barriers.”
There aren’t ‘socioeconomic barriers’ for minorities. They get special consideration for advanced degree programs, and they get financial assistance. I’m not in the slightest against advancing qualified minorities and non-minorities, and helping them out with expenses if they can’t afford it, but I am absolutely opposed to giving spots to people who haven’t earned them on the basis of their aptitude and efforts.
We have had doctors from all races and creeds for years now...this is not new, but the focus on which groups to increase “quotas” on seems to be up for change and undefined publically.
“That special title is.... Dr.”
I never believed that old saying for a minute. Some people slide through med school and are quite frankly horrible doctors. Race has nothing to do with intelligence and ambition. You either have it or you don’t. You either earned something worthwhile and challenging or you’re a “quota”. Just a thought.
I prefer being physically examined by smart, fit, middle-aged women.
Great idea! Affirmative Action Doctors. What a country we live in today!
you left out blonde
The cry of socio-economic barriers is a pseudonym for social justice, a pseudonym for communism.
Don’t be fooled.
Merit is merit.
There are plenty of scholarships private and public to overcome those so-called barriers and to discover talent and merit. The hospitals want talent. If they’d just keep it to that instead of injecting race there’d be nothing divisive to argue about...
And wouldn’t that just be a shame?
Affirmative action for doctors? Of course. What better way to make those eeevvvviiiillll Whiteys pay for all the centuries of oppression, slavery, and exploitation.
White medical school acceptance rate by GPA and MCAT score.
Black medical school acceptance rate by GPA and MCAT score.
Note that an MCAT score in the 24-26 range gives you a 22.5% acceptance rate if white, but 64.7% if black. That's the current advantage.
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