Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/12/2010 4:28:51 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Well, for my part, I won’t be satisfied until I see the mentally retarded represented in the medical community.
You cannot CREATE Doctors. It takes years of study and and hard work. You cannot fudge the tests, they have to be able to get good grades. You cannot say get more minority Doctors and they just appear.
I don’t know about anybody else, but if I ever need surgery I sure will want a white surgeon.
(shrug)
I can see that kind of program, where upon becoming a doctor in a particular state, one would then have to practice in a rural or underserved area for a determined period of time as a “payback” for the education. After that, they would be free to practice where ever.
Hey, so much for a good GPA. So what if the scalpel is an inch off or the diagnosis misses that key piece?
That “guy” was notorious as an incompetent, and he was killed mysteriously...undoubtedly by a relative of one of his victims.
“Diversity” is just a scheme to try to conceal inadequacy.
Nothing can make you feel better than contributing to the building of minority self esteem than by having an affirmative action medical practioner open you up, especially when you know he/she was pushed through med school with failing grades to enhance diversity statistics.
/sarcasm off
It has been in Med school for a long time. The only group that doesn’t get AA is white men.
One of the best doctors I ever had was black. He graduated from medical school in about 1955.
So will these diversity students get an automatic pass on the United States Medical Licensing Examination, too?
Exactly. The reasons there are more white doctors than others is because there are more white people than other people in this country -— at this point. To create some phony quota system is absurd, as there will be a greater or lower percentage of achievers in any ethnic group based on the cultural value of education and achievement. It is not an accident that Asian kids as a percentage are better students than other ethnics: it’s a family/cultural value. The same was and may still be true, generally, of Jews. Education and achievement were a huge priority in the home.
There are people who rise above the lack of familial interest in education, and that’s wonderful. They should be encouraged and assisted in achieving their potential.
But to simply decide, as the silly AMA seems to be doing, that we need more of this race or that ethnicity in a particular field is nonsense. Talent and intelligence do not break down in proportional percentages by race or heritage. Nor do ambition and determination.
When we try to engineer society, we end up lowering standards to meet the false god of “diversity” that should have nothing to do with the decisions being made.
I don’t care what color or sex my doctor is...I just want them to have at least a 115 IQ.
Someone taking on that much responsibility needs to be at least a little above average.
We need to start a campaing to boycott all of those medical schools that discriminate against black applicants.
Everyone knows tests and grades are racist concepts.
Uhhhh . . . not true.
In medical schools and residencies the cherished minorities are too important to fail. I saw it firsthand decades ago, and you know it’s just gotten worse since then.
There are more dumb-a$$ and lazy-a$$ minority doctors than you’d care to know. Certainly not all, but a scary amount.
My primary care doctor is a woman and all the evidence suggests that she’s a darn good one.
Well she COULD be a bad Woman but that would be a different story....
Somewhere in this country is the countries worst Doctor.
Someone is in his waiting room waiting to see him.
Why does her dream apparently matter so much more than the same dream by an Asian or white male? There should be no difference in the perceived importance of the dreams unless the judge is racist or sexist. But then, affirmative action is primarily supported by racists and sexists.
...the Assn. of American Medical Colleges' Holistic Review Project is encouraging schools to re-evaluate admissions policies to ensure that they graduate physicians who can serve an increasingly diverse population.
In other words, only a member of a particular race can provide good medical care to "his own kind." More rank racism, besides being dangerous nonsense that kills and maims. In any intellectually challenging profession, competence and diligence are the keys to good outcomes, not diversity. Diversity by itself does not improve anything.
My incompetent black dentist was not a better or worse dentist because he was black. My brilliant black rheumatology lecturer was not a better or worse rheumatologist because he was black. With no affirmative action, I might have been protected from the former (the damage he did to me cannot easily be repaired), while the latter would still have enjoyed a well-deserved stellar career.
Affirmative action should be eradicated like a communicable disease.
I have both black and white doctors. I go for BEST.
With the early retirement of up to 46% of primary care doctors because of 0’nazicare they better get in gear a lot faster.
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