Excellent minority doctors are stained by the existence of affirmative action doctors. White, male doctors are admitted on the basis of merit only and should be strongly preferred absent other data.
When/why/how did it become so acceptable to blatantly, legally (in most cases) and routinely discriminate ...”
That would be 1970. Yep almost 50 years ago. It was done first in the the case of women who, having been given a shot at entrance to all male schools were not getting in at the levels the femininsts thought proper. The entrance standards were at that point lowered.
And overall medical care will decline.
JoMa
I wouldn't even consider choosing a black doctor because I would have doubts about their qualifications. Did they get into medical school because of brains and talent, or because of the color of their skin? I don't want to be the guinea pig who finds out the hard way.
Effectively this shifts the burden of screening for qualifications from the medical school to the consumer. A smart person playing the odds is compelled to disqualify the black doctor, fairly or unfairly as that may be.
This will result in discrimination against selecting black doctors by anyone else.
LOL! Soon the medical care in Cuba WILL be better than in the USA!
When my alma mater medical school comes to me asking for money, guess what my reaction is!
Remember the Baake case?
It’s not just medical schools. Veterinary Colleges have been doing the same thing for years, often taking almost exclusively female applicants. This is the main reason why the veterinary profession is nearly at the point, where it’s *exclusively* female these days.
The Ontario Veterinary College for example, has an entry class of 100 every year, and for over 25 years has *NEVER* allowed more than 4-5 males in per cohort.
There were quotas written into the ACA’s original drafts. I’m not sure if they made it into the final draft.
Wow. Tell me again why Asians are considered a primarily Democrat constituency.
A few things from the article:
1) Why did anyone ever do this study?
2) Why did they release the results, once they knew just how skewed things are?
3) Perhaps surveys like this are the REAL REASON that the Democrats so desperately wants government to take over health care. In other words, as people understand our two-tier system in medicine, it will become harder and harder for black doctors to find patients...so easy solution - force people to use them.
Affirmative action in doctors, surgeons, EMT personnel and airline pilots inevitably leads to deaths.
Once they are admitted in college, they have to be passed and given a diploma or the college will be called racist, so we have a whole crop of dangerous incompetents.
According to the left, advocating that hiring and admissions be based on “qualifications” and “meritocracy” are racist.
“Based on national data, is there any conclusion other than the obvious one – that US medical schools are granting special preferences for admissions on the basis of race for certain preferred minority groups (blacks and Hispanics) over other non-preferred minority groups (Asians) and whites?”
A plausible alternate conclusion is economic diversity. I personally know several doctors whose fathers are/were doctors and whose children are doctors. They all went to expensive and highly regarded preparatory schools and colleges, vacationed and studied abroad, had private tutors, were born with a silver spoon, and raised to become doctors at an early age. Given a choice between two people with equal or near equal qualifications, one who was raised in a stable family has the best education and economic advantages that money can buy and the other who was raised in a housing project by a single parent or grandparent and is a victim of an inner-city, violent, drug infested, government run school, I see nothing wrong with giving a preference to the latter over the former.
FYI: The biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action are not ethnic minorities, but alumni legacies from well-connected families such as Bush, Kennedy, and Roosevelt.
This has been goi g on while. You can choose your routine doctor.. but you are stuck eith skin color over quality in the most critical care scenarios.
Affirmative discrimination indeed
Besides, being an excellent doctor, our primary care doctor is a Scot/Irish guy in his mid 40’s.
In spite of the reverse racism, he had to endure at premed, med school, and family practice residency for 3 years in Californicator land, he survived all that bs to become an excellent doctor.
This nonsense started in the 70's and I personally am aware of a dozen white guys and gals who were honors grads, who were not accepted since the 90's.