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Recently I had open heart surgery, aortic valve replacement and ascending aorta. This is serious surgery. My surgeon was from India. He taught cardiac surgery at the teaching hospital (Baylor Scott White). I selected him because he was the best they had. You put your life in their hands when this is done. He did well. I do not care what color my doctor is. I care about how good he is.

UCLA med school has a DEI program called “Cultural North Star,” led by sap-happy Natalie J. Perry (above). Her official bio says her job is to “embed our aspirational Cultural North Star DEI values in our organizational DNA.” UCLA honored Perry last month for teaching students to “do what’s right,” saying her “empathy and radical listening” are to thank for her “success as an educator and a leader.”

A Daily Wire and City Jnal investigation found Perry’s academic career is based on outright fraud. <>Perry published a single paper, a 2014 Ph.D. dissertation at the U of Va <>about how colleges should create larger DEI programs. <>but the paper was ridden with the worst sort of plagiarism, <>she reproduced large swaths of text directly from several other authors, without citations. <>The scale of her plagiarism suggests that Perry lacks both ethics and competence <>and raises questions about academic programs that push DEI. <>Perry’s dissertation lifted passages from ten other papers. <>In key portions of her text, she copied almost every paragraph from other sources without attribution. <>She failed to even mention at least four of the ten plagiarized papers anywhere.

Indian medical schools are interesting - I don’t know how they can do what they do.

They have, essentially, open admissions. And anyone who doesn’t drop out graduates.

But their academic standards are very high, more British than the British, and class rank tells the tale.

Top students from their good schools are as good or better that their US counterparts. They are chiefs of service at top flight US teaching hospitals. Some of the best physicians and surgeons I have worked with (for 50 years this coming 7/1) are from Indian or Pakistani med schools.

So what about the not-so-good ones, the counterparts of Americans who don’t get into US schools or who don’t graduate?

In India, they’re MDs out running what amount to first aid stations in villages or helping arrange public sanitation.

It’s really different from how we do things, but their best are among the world’s best.