If one goes back to the 1978 Supreme Court case involving Allan Bakke and the University of California at Davis Medical School, it's interesting to follow the career of Patrick Chavis, the black student who was admitted to medical school based on affirmative action.
In 1997, the Medical Board of California suspended his license to practice medicine based on his inability to perform some of the most basic duties required of a physician.
He was not only guilty of egregious medical incompetence but the Los Angeles district attorney made him the subject of a criminal investigation because of the death of a patient as a result of his criminal negligence. I won't describe all the gruesome details but it reads like something from Dr. Mengele's career.
I know all about Patrick Chavis! http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/docs/dmartin.html
Patrick Chavis, one of five black students whose admission to a medical school in California 30 years ago provoked a Supreme Court battle over affirmative action, died on July 23 in Hawthorne, Calif. He was 50. Mr. Chavis, whose medical license was revoked five years ago for malpractice, was fatally shot as he returned to his car after buying an ice cream cone in Hawthorne, a suburb of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.
Investigators theorized that three men had tried to hijack Mr. Chavis's car but fled without it. Mr. Chavis lived in Inglewood, Calif. In 1973, Mr. Chavis was admitted to the University of California at Davis medical school in a program to increase black enrollment. Allan Bakke, a white applicant who was rejected despite having higher scores than the five black applicants, sued to be admitted. In 1978, the Supreme Court struck down the program, ruling that race could be a factor but not the only factor considered for admission.
After graduation, Dr. Chavis returned to Los Angeles as an obstetrician and gynecologist, to the area where he had grown up. In the mid-1990's, his work won him attention in articles in The New York Times Magazine, in The Nation and on television programs. In 1996, Senator Edward M. Kennedy called him a "perfect example" of how affirmative action worked. Mr. Kennedy and other proponents of affirmative action suggested, at least implicitly, that Dr. Bakke, an anesthesiologist in Rochester, Minn., had achieved less than Dr. Chavis.
After Chavis killed that woman, I'm sure Kennedy and the others sent Dr. Bakke an apology.