Posted on 09/15/2019 3:29:47 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
So they’re going to stop judging people by the color of their skin? It’s about time!
It’s probably true that, all other things being equal, a patient gets better care from someone of similar characteristics. It’s almost certainly true that a patient gets better care from someone who’s better qualified.
It only took 15 years for this to be resolved.
Please. puhlease, don’t lower the admission standards while trying to achieve diversity! There is no excuse for allowing a substandard person to enroll in Medical school just to meet a quota based on racial percentage. The fact that 6.8%, roughly half the percentage of blacks in the US population, are admitted to Med School is not something to be alarmed about.
I know three MDs that attended med school in other countries because they were not able to enroll here in the USA.
“You would think by the drug commercials, that all doctors are black.”
I can top that! By looking at ALL commercials, you would think that more than half of the USA is black and that inter-racial marriages are common.
Friends visiting from Scotland thought that it was “remarkable.”
“Is there an agenda being driven?” “Some of the settings seem fictional also.”
“While I was getting my drivers license renewed here in Houston, they were running ads on the screens about how all the medical research done was done by old white people and that research led to bad decisions on the health and welfare of people of color.”
I know from personal experience this is not true. Most of the research scientists in Houston are Asian and Middle Eastern with a few from Europe thrown in. Very, very few are white Americans.
Its all about the feelz.
“Behind the scenes, Trump is acting on his promises.”
That he is. A trip to any number of websites tracking his wins shows thousands of wins.
Asian players are historically underrepresented in the NBA.
The assumption is that either the doctors and other medical practitioners of whatever type won’t take as good care of people who are of a different race of background than they are, OR that black or hispanic patients won’t seek the care they need from a doctor of a different race or background.
In reality it’s nonsense. I don’t think most doctors, nurses, and so forth really give a flip what color their patient’s skin is.
If a physician is not a good doctor, then he or she isn’t good for any patients, same minority/ethnicity/race or not. Admitting someone to medical school who will be less than competent is going to be detrimental to patients of ANY color!
Why the focus on Americans of Asian extraction? Is DOJ afraid to oppose discrimination against whites?
Hospitals and clinics in every urban area import enough doctors from overseas that there is no shortage of African doctors or (dot)Indian doctors in any major city, nor of Filipino nurses at any hospital.
The problem is that US black Americans don't get a chance at doctoral programs if they go to public schools. Private schools yes, but very few make it from public schools.
“I don’t see many white doctors these days at hospitals or offices.”
Yep. Mostly Chinese, Indian and Vietnamese with some middle easterners thrown in.
Considering race in admissions is also illegal per federal law.
JoMa
If med schools keep lowering standards to shoehorn minority candidates in, they are doing the opposite of what they intend. They are arousing suspicion that docs of color were affirmative action acceptances, and not as qualified. That’s how that works. And it’s unfair to persons of color who actually did make the grade.
“Regression towards the mean.”
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