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White male doctors earn 35 percent more than black male doctors
via Boston Globe ^ | June 8, 2016 | Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Posted on 06/08/2016 3:45:23 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

White male physicians in the United States earn a whopping 35 percent more than their black male counterparts — even after accounting for factors such as field of medical specialty, experience, and hours worked.

Data published Tuesday in the British Medical Journal also showed a large gender gap. White female physicians earned 40 percent less than white men, and black women earned less still.

(Excerpt) Read more at statnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; doctors; pay
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To: ConservativeStatement

This white female physician makes exactly what my male and black counterparts make. In 30 years of medical practice I have never made anything more or less than my male or minority colleagues for the same job and experience level. I find this hard to believe, other than the fact that some specialties are compensated much more generously than others. Maybe there are less female or black neurosurgeons....


41 posted on 06/08/2016 4:12:53 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: ConservativeStatement

Maybe because people are doing what my father - a doctor - advised me to do after the “Bakke” decision in the late ‘70s: only go to white male docs if they were younger than about 25 at that time. Why? Because they will have gotten into med school with a significant handicap (Affirmative Action), so they will be smarter than their minority or female compatriots of a similar age. He told me that for older docs, the opposite was true, that they were smarter to get in with significant discrimination against them. He didn’t like to give that advice, but he said that since you won’t get to examine their med school application, or compare it to those of their classmates, that this policy was the safest bet.


42 posted on 06/08/2016 4:18:03 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Has nothing to do with their abilities and IQ, or where they choose to open a practice.


43 posted on 06/08/2016 4:18:09 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Looks like a rapist


44 posted on 06/08/2016 4:19:21 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Bryanw92

I like your attitude, and I happen to feel exactly the same way. At this point in time am I being called a racist is a badge of honor, given who the people are who throw that term around. One of my cousins is a particularly obnoxious liberal a$$hole, and every time it happens to criticize me or My Views, I thank him for reinforcing my sense of being correct. It pisses him off even more.


45 posted on 06/08/2016 4:21:05 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ConservativeStatement
August is White Supremacists Month! Hoodwear optional.
46 posted on 06/08/2016 4:22:12 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Would you rather go to a doctor who had the deck stacked against him, but made it into medical school anyway, the affirmative action admission, or the two point affirmative action admission?


47 posted on 06/08/2016 4:25:59 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Haiku Guy

****I know that a white male doctor had to jump through every hoop, ace every test, and fight and claw his way through medical school. ****

And THAT is why Red Fox (Sanford and Son) wanted a white dentist to work on his teeth instead of a Black Dentist in one of their old shows.
Come to find out, the black dentist was just as highly trained as the white dentist who “claimed” to Red that he had gotten his license through a mail order school.


48 posted on 06/08/2016 4:26:18 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ConservativeStatement

It must be all the competition among Black Doctors. I have noticed that around 90% of all Dr.s are Black and maybe 70% of those are female.

That has to be correct as TV would never mislead you.


49 posted on 06/08/2016 4:30:13 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I have no problem paying a black doctor the same as a top white doctor provided he went to the same top school (and not as an affirmative action case either), earned the same top grades, blew everyone away during his residency and fellowship, published a number of outstanding papers in his specialty, etc. ‘Course the article fails to take any of that into account.


50 posted on 06/08/2016 4:31:25 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: ConservativeStatement

People don’t want to end up like Kanye West’s mom


51 posted on 06/08/2016 4:31:29 PM PDT by American Guesser
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To: yarddog

I saw an ad for a dental plan. White males doctors were shown in black and white creating an image of a bygone era. Then, in color, women and minority doctors were shown which represented how the dental visit would be modern. Who wants to go to a white male dentist anyway. Yuck, so like 1950’s. Like, OMG. :-)


52 posted on 06/08/2016 4:36:57 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: ConservativeStatement
But the evil jooos make the most.
It's not really the regular white people.
53 posted on 06/08/2016 4:42:14 PM PDT by oldbrowser (The republican party is the voters, not the politicians.)
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To: Ancesthntr
The Alan Bakke decision is a clear case of why affirmative action is ridiculous. The black that got Alan Bakke's position in Medical School after graduation had several malpractice suits against him along with criminal and ethic violations. Bakke on the other hand finally was accepted into a medical school and has been exemplary in his actions and treatment of patients. Bakke’s case was one of hundreds.

My alma mater actively went on trying to recruit blacks for veterinary college and I'd venture that only 1% of all of the graduates from its 30+ years were black because they refused to lower the standards for admission.

54 posted on 06/08/2016 4:49:18 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Data published Tuesday in the British Medical Journal...”

With Socialism you drag everyone down to the lowest level ... so what they are whining about is that some doctors refuse to be dragged down .... to say NHS standards.


55 posted on 06/08/2016 4:50:35 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Bingo! The customer chooses the doctor.


56 posted on 06/08/2016 4:53:00 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What!? There are white male doctors?

Thought they were all run out of the business.

I thought they all have been replaced with females, and paki/indian witch doctors.


57 posted on 06/08/2016 4:54:08 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: King Moonracer

Yeah, let me know when the black doctors come from the same school, get the same board scores, are working in the same hospital at the same job, and the mean hospital pays the black guy less. Doesn’t happen. They are making less because they are coming from crappy schools that were what they could get into, or they got into a good school on affirmative action and their grades and scores are not as high. Guess what, affirmative action ends when the result of political correctness is dead patients.


58 posted on 06/08/2016 4:56:06 PM PDT by Defiant (After 8 years of Chump Change, it's time for Trump Change.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

“People” celebrate when women want a female doc and blacks want a black doc, but if you are a white male and look for a white male doc, you are a racist.


59 posted on 06/08/2016 4:56:10 PM PDT by Hulka
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60 posted on 06/08/2016 4:56:47 PM PDT by NYFreeper
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