Posted on 10/12/2010 4:28:51 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
What happened to post-racial America? I really don’t care what ethnic group the doctor’s from, but I do know the good ones from the ones that don’t know anything except what the drug companies told them in medical school!
In the famous Bakke Supreme Court case, the less-qualified minority student that took Bakke’s place in med school went on to... lose his license after killing a patient.
Pull the PC on something that’s not a matter of life and death.
So the guy running the news stand on the corner can put in for this job? Single payer Obamacare
I am basing my guess based on watching TV but at least half of all Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, Psychiatrists, etc. are Black and around 70% of those are females.
I notice they leave out Asian and Pacific Islanders. Here in northern Ohio about half the doctors are Filipino, Pakistani, Korean, and assorted other "Asian origins."
If they want to get more black doctors, why don't they just say so. Fine by me. But quit hiding behind the figleaf of "diversity."
I’m all in favor of anybody who can hack medical school getting the chance to prove it. Right now, medical schools intentionally limit their students and graduates, to keep the supply of physicians low.
I figure if some States got together their own medical training schools, open to any who pass their standardized tests, the US would finally have enough doctors to have rural doctors. It is worth it enough so that if students make it through their undergraduate work, States should pay for their post-graduate medical studies.
This last part is important, so that they would not become doctors with horrific debt over their heads, but could move right into their practice, so they would get financial stability quickly.
Now,of course there are minorities and women who are qualified to hold jobs like that (well,in the case of women,the first two at least).My primary care doctor is a woman and all the evidence suggests that she's a darn good one.
Also,I worked in a world famous hospital for 20 years.I certainly saw some white male doctors who appeared to me to be of questionable capabilities but a greater percentage of the female and minority ones seemed to fit that category.Not all of them,certainly....not even most of them...but a noticeable percentage of them.
Affirmative Action comes to med school. Ain’t diversity great? We are now playing Russian roulette with medicine and everything else in this nation.
Recipe for disastrous erosion of clinical excellence. They destroyed the liberal arts and humanities this way, why not medicine. Nurse-practitioners will be doing all the heavy lifting with patient care anyway.
I’ve always wondered why they don’t award medical doctor degrees from a variety of schools that have their own admission qualifications. But, all doctors would have to disclose what school they graduated from when you solicit their services. So, if people don’t care if their doctor was a D student, they can still see a doctor.
Note the politicians will NOT use afformative action doctors for themselves or their immediate families.
“Diversity” WILL naturally occur on its own, when in the natural course of human events, over time, as gradually the 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation descendants of immigrants assimilate and by their own choices, increase their ranks in the professions (as it was with every other ethnic "minority" in the past). Funny, we had no "diversity" programs then.
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Oh, not that type of doctor.
call me way behind the curve, but could someone explain why ethnic/racial “diversity” is important? It doesn’t seem to be a goal in basketball, BET, or the Black Caucus... so why in medical schools?
call me way behind the curve, but could someone explain why ethnic/racial “diversity” is important? It doesn’t seem to be a goal in basketball, BET, or the Black Caucus... so why in medical schools?
Two solutions to go around the induced shortage:
1. H1B visas for foreign doctors.
2. There are now some insurance plans in the works that pay for a patient to go to India, Mexico, and probably several Asian nations for surgical procedures. Apparently it’s still cheaper even taking air fare and hotel stays into account.
Affirmative action is why I prefer white Jewish male doctors, followed by white Protestant male doctors.
They actually got in based on brain power and effort.
Archie Bunker said it best when he looked for a Jewish lawyer, rather than any lawyer. I took his words to heart ever since and will always pick the Jew first - why, because he (or she) got there on merit. I will run for the hills from a doctor with a name like Shondra, although most people with those types of names are smart enough to not advertise them. After the Jews come other ethnic minorities, such as Indians and Asians. Of course looking at pictures definitely helps. Also, a given Hispanic may be fine doctor, and no there are many, but I will put my family at risk if he got there with some ‘help’.
Finally, all this freedom to choose might become mute as we become a single-payer health care system and I’ve always believed, from Hillary’s stab at it through today, that real purpose of socialized medicine was to provide jobs for these protected minorities, particularly as more people start to think like myself.
In arizona, the leftists call this profiling.
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