Posted on 07/31/2010 3:09:10 PM PDT by ruralvoter
Hundreds of children and parents gathered at an Orlando church early Saturday to raise awareness about health and obesity.
The Walk A Mile With A Child event at Grace Bible Church, sponsored by the National Medical Association, was designed to reach black and Hispanic Orlandoans with a message about the benefits of a commitment to physical fitness. (snip) U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is lecturing at the NMA opening ceremony today. (snip) "The number of black physicians has been eroding," said Dr. Nelson Adams, of Miami. Adams is former state and national president of the National Medical Association.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Yes, indeedy. Obamacare with bells on.
What a bunch of cracker-hating racists.
Hope they don’t want a quota for “minority” airline pilots.
Playing the race card over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over is only going to create racists.
Alternative headline:
Too Many Physicians Are Honkeys.
The fundamental problem is the relative lack of educational effort and achievement by blacks, especially in the hard disciplines that are based on science and mathematics. This sharply limits the pool of potential black medical professionals and assures that those who are recruited into the field must be accepted with significantly lower qualifications than white medical professionals.
As long as these minority physicians are just going to treat minorities, I guess it’s OK with me.
Hate to tell them, but once Obamacare kicks in, there won’t be ANY physicians — minority or otherwise.
Yep, need to do what the USPS did,, dumb down the test's for technical skills needed so custodians could pass the test,,, I'm not kidding,, this recently happened at the USPS,
Not enough blacks in the better paying maintenance side. I guess they want to dumb down the Physician's test??????ya,, that's gonna work......
I guess all the doctors from India don't count.
minority health care workers etc
why minority why not just GOOD health care workers, nurses and Docs.
These people are nothing but racists and anyone who see diversity or wants it is a racist too.
I want GOOD Docs, teachers, people , neighbors, diversity has nothing to do with anything but in a racist mind where they only see color, religion and race
anyone who harps on about diversity or plays the race card or even want affirmative action is nothing but a disgusting damn racist and they are told by me right away .
It’s time to call these people what they are
“The number of black physicians has been eroding,” said Dr. Nelson Adams, of Miami.
The marketplace has a tendency to weed out those who’ve previously advanced on non-meritorious grounds
I am sick to death of special set asides, special preferences, etc. The slaves were freed a hundred fifty years ago, at least from their former masters. But they just changed owners. Now they are owned by the DNC and "leaders"(read con men) like Sharpton, Jackson, and Obama.
vaudine
why minority Docs etc?
Why not just get decent good Docs who can do the job and who can help others.
Yet again the far left show their racist face, we on the right look at people and a Doc, the far left look at peoples color.
so much for MLK speech.
Disgusting far left dirty vile racists
And should we lower the standards for those physicians in the same manner as the standards have obviously been lowered for folks like Rangel, Waters, etc.
My gawd, man, there are NO standards in congress, and I regard a parasite infected fly with more respect than I regard our leaders.
Their time is coming.
Soon.
At our hospital staff meetings we often have to deal with who is the best minority physician. Patients ask all the time, right after “ I want the best minority surgeon to operate on my mom!”
“Hundreds walk to raise awareness about health, need for more minority physicians”
...to go back where they came from!
Just a reminder - An editorial written last year about Reparations and Obamacare...
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=333586760867927
Reparations By Way Of Health Care Reform
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, July 27, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Race obsession is never rational and never healthy.
I can say that despite minority-only tutoring sessions in which our professors basically gave away the answers to anatomy practicals, the “affirmative action” members of our medical school class were pretty much universally represented at the bottom. Everyone knew who they were. More than a handful never made it with passing grades.
I guess there’s always more room at the bottom, but some of these students had no business in a medical school class. I wouldn’t personally go to them as a doctor knowing what I know now.
Doesn’t mean they can’t eventually turn things around, but it sure didn’t happen over four-years of medical school.
It’s a sad state that I have to use this as a disclaimer for the rest of the minority kids in our class, as some of them absolutely deserved to be there. But the majority of the minority...let’s just say there were far more qualified candidates than they were.
If they pass the boards you call them Doctor. I don’t care what color they are as long as they come out of a very good school, something WAY ABOVE the level of Howard U.!
YEP...affirmative action is destroying the opportunities for QUALIFIED minorities to rise to levels they should....everyone (minority) now faces possible patients who will question WHETHER they were a product of AA, or their own hard work and skills.
More black physicians?
Yes, that’s what they need. More unqualified blacks given seats in medical school, coddled along to graduation by race-norming and other ways of reducing standards, and then released into the community to work as physicians and butcher patients.
Then the black folk can complain that blacks get poorer health care than whites and have a lower life expectancy... whitey’s fault!
Dream on. Blacks who are upwardly mobile and have the education and financial means are NOT going to stop the process with obamacare looming. They will more likely enter the law field which will promise huge salaries when suing the few remaining overworked and unhappy docs and health institutions.
Silk purse - pigs ear comes to mind.
Kids might do better going to Ronald McDonald U.
A couple of suggestion to the U S Surgeon General. (I didn’t know we had one in the Obama admin - I thought it would be a Czar)
Black students must stay in high school
A basketball contract will not make you a Doctor.
You have to be able to speak clearly, and, above all, be able to write!
Oh yes, it takes at least 8 more years of school just ot be called “Doctor”.
Here’s something you never see reported:
The underqualified black that took Bakke’s medical school seat went on to lose his license after killing a patient.
But I’m sure he was a good role model...
If they don’t want to be treated by cracker (and Hispanic) doctors and nurses they can get black doctors from out of the area or start black medical schools. Maybe Obama will lower the requirements to become a black medical professional.
“Hope they don’t want a quota for “minority” airline pilots.”
It’s already been done.
You are about 25 years behind the times. This has already been demanded, and accomplished. Those guys are in their latter portions of their careers by now.
No, they don't.
Once a minority has demonstrated its ability to achieve, it loses its minority status -- even if it's really a minority.
To the left, the word "minority" is a synonym for loser.
The underqualified black that took Bakke’s medical school seat went on to lose his license after killing a patient.
But I’m sure he was a good role model...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS v. BAKKE, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
Patrick Chavis
http://lists.ucla.edu/pipermail/religionlaw/1997-August/009615.html
Lower standards. Hand out medical degrees like candy.
Very true! My husband had successful emergency surgery at the hands of an African-American doctor. We just want a competent doctor...that should be the priority.
“Lower standards. Hand out medical degrees like candy.”
No reason to. My orthopaedic surgeon is an AF Academy graduate, plus his MD (wherever that came from. He know his stuff. Oh yes, he’s black, if that makes any difference to you one way or another.
All I care about is that he put me back together nicely.
Too many basketball players are .... what color? (I forget)
Tell it to the race panderers. They're saying we do because high standards is the ONLY THING keeping them out of the profession, not money. Money is there for good students.
Maybe? The health care bill just passed has provisions for increasing enrollment of minorities in medical schools.
Hell, that's easily remedied. Just lower the standards for all.
Outstanding! I have never heard it put better.
Who cares what color a doctor or nurse is? I mean, gee whiz, all that matters is that they do their job right!
Obamacare seems poised to take that path, so problem solved! The new way will be substandard medical care for the general public, but delivered by more black and brown faces so that we can be told that we are morally superior to the benighted olden days when white males put professional expertise and quality of care first.
So long as they continue to be taught and believe in Black Liberation Theology, nothing will change.
True. We all know the color of one’s skin is crucial to the practice of medicine / NOT!
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