These days, Patel or Park or Yee. Have you seen the new crop of residents and med students?
There is a case to be made for a degree of affirmative action because a black doctor is more likely to have an office in black neighborhoods and to understand cultural issues affecting health and communicate better with black patients than a white doctor.
I’m talking about American black doctors, not the scions of the elite of Nigeria or Barbados.
And you should measure - does the black doctor benefitting from affirmative action typically work in a black neighborhood? Does he in fact communicate more effectively with black patients? Medicine today is full of “best practices” and “measured outcomes.” If affirmative action does not result in the desired outcomes, then dump it.
And when I say a degree of affirmative action, I don’t mean that black students should be nearly four times as likely to be accepted than white or Asian students with the same grades - that’s going too far.
I can't agree with you on that point.
All affirmative action is bad.
I agree with Thomas Sowell...if you don't have the grades to gain entrance to Harvard, Johns Hopkins, etc., go to where you WILL earn admission. There are plenty of good state supported Medical Schools and other fine alternatives.
But I agree with you about the foreign doctors. My "go to" general practitioner is Dr. Htwe (pronounced "Twee"). He's from somewhere in S.E. Asia and a marvelous doctor.
Of course....most of them are trying to escape their socialized medicine at home and come here where they will be appreciated.
Obamacare will stop that flood of good, ambitious doctors in their tracks.
So. . .are we to understand you have no issue with a less qualified black applicant being accepted to medical school over, say, you, your son, your daughter, wife?
So it's okay for blacks to get the low scoring doctor?