Yet young whites and Asians still vote for the Affirmative Action Pres__ent. Amazing.
Not "even," but "especially."
If there was no AA, I couldn't less if my doctor looked like Tupac Shakur as long as he had a respectable diploma.
Now....I wouldn't trust any sheepskin on the wall of a black doctor unless I knew him personally or was recommended to me from a trusted source.
Instead....I'll just keep looking down the roster until I find a Cohen or Steinberg.
Race plays a major part in medical school admissions? Nah, can’t be. The Supreme Court settled that in 1978 in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265.
A black MD says he greatly opposes Affirmative Action because of how evil it is. And he adds that it hurts his medical career, too. Turns out that most potential patients don’t want his services ... even though he worked his way through medical school on his own merits without “AA”
patients just assume that he MAY have been (or probably was) admitted and passed through based on his race, and so they do not want to risk their lives with him
That actually would be more than 3 times as likely, not 30% more likely, to get accepted.
May all those pushing AA in the selection of future physicians some day end up in an emergency room with their lives in the hands of an Affirmative Action doctor.......
Without going into the sordid details, I was harmed by my black dentist’s incompetence. I have to wonder if he was an affirmative action admission to dental school.
Sadly, this is why I choose my doctors carefully. And, yes, race is one of the qualifiers.
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pushing women over men... minorities over whites...
the academic community is pushing to make tomorrows business leaders and high income earners democrats
We work on recommendations for "the best in the area" from friends who were patients or from docs we know personally. Or sometimes, it's somebody we were given during a visit to the Emergency Room who impressed the heck out of us. That usually turns out to be a white male, usually a Jew or Catholic who worked his way through college and graduated from one of the "name" medical schools. Did come up with one female dermatologist that way (from the Philippines). She was great, but it's hard to book her, because she doesn't work as many office hours as the males in her group. I think she has a family.
And we've been seen by a fair number of clueless, cold, female weirdos, especially in OB-GYN, who seemed like lesbos, whom we blew off STAT. There must be a lesbo quota in some of these schools, too.
As I’ve always said, no way would I ever let a black surgeon cut into me.
I’ll take my chances waiting in line for the white surgeon, thank you.
If I were a white-trash fringey tinfoiler drinking straight bourbon all night in a beat-up trailer in Kingman, Arizona, four slots down from the space where Timothy McVeigh used to live, I might infer from the above and tell my drinking buddies that the PTB are preparing a genocidal pogrom of elderly whites, and are recruiting doctors they feel will be more "approachable" for the "end-of-life" jobs.
But then I don't read those websites.
This is no surprise to me. My son, a 2009 graduate of Pepperdine University, with a 3.79 GPA and a score of 32 on the MCAT (average score is 26 BTW)was only accepted to two of the 18 schools to which he applied. Neither were schools he decided to attend as they were both far from home and on the high end of the tuition scale. Neither were large or well known schools. He was wait listed at 5 other schools but did not move off the list.
When he began the process, which is a miserable endeavor in and of itself, he was given a list of schools that he was most likely to be accepted into with his “numbers.”
What I observed in the secondaries were essay questions that made it obvious the selection committees were interest in two things; was he a minority with a deprived or underprivileged background or did he have a hook, i.e. was he gay or did he have a handicap or disability or had he overcome some tremendous obstacle in his life?
We really had to struggle to answer some of the questions because he is a normal young man, bright, dedicated, competent and hard working, but he comes from a two parent family, lived in the same house all his life and never faced a tragedy or hardship.
He decided not to go through the application process again because it’s stressful and costly so he will not be a doctor.
I told him many times during those times that if God’s will was for him to do this with his life, he would be accepted and go, end of story. He was not and therefore will not, so God must have other plans for him.
As it stands now, with Obamacare the law of the land, I think it was actually a blessing that he will not be going into massive debt to be a part of the deteriorating medical profession.
A blessing, but still it stings. Especially after seeing this.
and in Fire Departments and Police Departments.
Isn’t that great?