Is There a Black, Latino Doctor in the House?

Luke "Non-white TEA Partiers are like Concentration Camp Kapos" Visconti's DiversityInc ^ | Gail Zoppo

[flowerplough]

('Cause color of skin is so much more important than content of character)

In the fall of 2005, Alister Martin seemed the most unlikely candidate for Harvard Medical School. Laid up in the hospital with "my face so swollen my mother didn't recognize me," he says, the high-school senior was recovering from a brutal gang attack. The situation had escalated to a point that law enforcement advised Martin's mother, a Haitian immigrant, to pull her son from Neptune (N.J.) High School to avoid further trouble.

So Martin's mom secured a $15,000 loan and sent her son to the private Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida, where he completed his GED online while practicing 16 hours a day. Martin's drive and unwavering desire to become a physician pointed him to Rutgers University's Office for Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences (ODASIS), whose Access-Med program prepares promising Black, Latino and other undergrads from underrepresented and economically disadvantaged groups for careers in medicine.

Four years later, Martin graduated from Rutgers with a 3.85 GPA and will begin Harvard Medical School this fall. "A miracle happened," says Martin.

Each year, ODASIS serves roughly 500 at-risk undergrads, and nearly 800 of them have graduated since the program's founding in 1985. Among the ODASIS class of 2009, 86 percent were accepted to medical school, up from 70 percent in 2007.

Still, Black, Latino and American Indian med students are rare. Three years ago, more than 40,000 people applied to medical school in the United States, with Blacks, Latinos and American Indians making up only about 15 percent of the applicant pool, reports the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), while comprising about one-third of the population. That same year, only 8.7 percent of doctors were from these underrepresented groups, according to a study...

[flowerplough]

Article and comments afterward continue in similar vein. Blah. blah, blah, skin color, skin color, skin color, equality of outcome, underrepresented groups, underrepresented groups,equality of outcome, etc.

[OpusatFR]

Yet there are scads of Asian, Indian, Taiwanese, and Middle Eastern medical students.

Guess when it comes to color, there are shades of prejudice acceptable to the Progressives.

[muawiyah]

Over the last 3 months i've had some serious eye problems ~including surgery 2 times. Not that it's relevant but I've met a whole big bunch of doctors ~ mostly opthamologists, and they were Jewish, Baptist, Moslem, Buddhist, Hindu, ...., and white, black, tan, yellow, etc.

They all had top notch bedside manners ~ they were all really bright people ~ they all used the latest in advanced technology as well as some old standbys that are still the state of the art.

All seemed concerned, and were concerned.

Everyone of them was leading a Christ-like life, bringing sight to the blind.

[massgopguy]

“Out with the old doctors. In with the new.” - Stalin

The Doctor’s Plot. Stalin wanted to purge the medical ranks in the USSR because there were too many Joooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos. So he said they were out to kill him.

[Hodar]

If I have a serious operation (and any operation is serious); I refuse to have a Black surgeon. Am I racist? No, my rationale is simple - I want someone that I KNOW did not get through medical school because of his skin color.

I'll accept an Asian, Indian, Pakistani, White surgeon without comment. I don't care if they went to school here, or in their native country. As long as they are certified to be here, and to conduct the surgery in the USA; they are fine with me.

I will not put my life in the hands of a man who may have gotten his license because of the color of his skin - I have but one life. I demand that my surgeon be competent, and earned his certifications.

[kittymyrib]

If you drop out of high school to hang on the streets with your gang-banger friends, it’s unlikely that you can become a doctor or anything else but an inmate in one of our taxpayer funded prisons.

[kalee]

In 25 years at 500 students a year that is 12,500 students. But only 800 have graduated. Is that what I read? I do NOT all that a succes.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

It doesn’t matter what a doctor looks like, as long as he/she is competent. However, with affirmative action, race-norming, grade inflation for minorities, and hiring quotas, many people are skeptical.

[CodeToad]

“500 at-risk undergrads, and nearly 800 of them have graduated since the program’s founding in 1985.”

So, 25 years and only 800 graduates? 32 a year? 500 a year served? A 6.4% graduation rate? Doesn’t seem like much to crow about; more to be ashamed about.

[CodeToad]

“Blacks, Latinos and American Indians making up only about 15 percent of the applicant pool”

Blacks are only 12.5% of the population in the first place.

[Spike Knotts]

I bet Kenya is full of White witch doctors...their education courtesy of the Kenyan tax payers, of course.

[Nat Turner]

Please don't look at the color of your surgeons skin, just ask if they are liberal or conservatives. Plenty of Black doctors are conservatives and NOT affirmative actions hires. We happen to have both competence and integrity...

thanks

[wardaddy]

you cannot believe how heavily they weigh grad schools of any type towards minorities of color and women

it is unfathomable

i’m living this with daughter number one right now

i’m trying to bribe bitch from hell ex wife to give me our daughter’s Brasilian passport we got her at birth...just for this

it is so effed up

the folks who run these places absolutely hate white folks...especially white men

it must kill them to have to accept them

affirmative action has gone crazy