I became a doctor before standards were lowered. Who wants a doctor that is below standards and is only a doctor because of their skin color... Now I get painted with the same brush and am also seen as sub-standard. This is not the way to affect change.
Did they not teach you the difference between "effect" and affect" in doctor school?
I don’t know what you’re getting at. Affect is the correct usage. You do not effect change, you affect change. The former would mean the change is the result of an already completed action. The latter means you want to affect change in the future with actions today. He is clearly talking about affecting change for the future.
All you did was prove you are an ignorant dingleberry who probably never went to college, or aspired to be a doctor and flunked so you have this pent up envy to try to outsmart doctors. But you failed, again.
The fact is that much of what doctors fail to do has little to do with their technical skills--since treatments should be relatively standardized when we're talking about primary care doctors, as mentioned in the article--and much more to do with their ability to communicate effectively with their patients, to follow their patients' progress, rather than their treatment being handled by a changing cast of characters, and to get their patients to maintain the commonsense programs they should advise. Race has something to do with all this, because black patients get better outcomes with black doctors. That is a fact.
As a white guy who graduated from med school this past May, I had no idea how discriminated against I've been. Thank you for telling me how aggrieved I am!
The fact is that much of what doctors fail to do has little to do with their technical skills--since treatments should be relatively standardized when we're talking about primary care doctors, as mentioned in the article--and much more to do with their ability to communicate effectively with their patients, to follow their patients' progress, rather than their treatment being handled by a changing cast of characters, and to get their patients to maintain the commonsense programs they should advise. Race has something to do with all this, because black patients get better outcomes with black doctors. That is a fact.
That's not a fact, that's an opinion... an opinion that argues in favor of segregation, which is beyond idiotic.
these thoughts have been on my mind for a while now. I have never seen them expressed from someone with a voice like a former dean of a PRESTIGIOUS medical school. I have to say that I AGREE. We spend tons of time talking about the social determinants of health. My classmates trip over themselves to display how “aware” and “woke” they are. Invocation of “Institutionalized racism” is always treated like a profound contribution to any discussion or issue. To me it seems like a case of the emperor’s new clothes
MD friend was on admissions selection committee at another school a dozen years ago. Every accusation made was true then. He never did it again. The worst he said was the committee consistently rejecting higher performing economically disadvantaged whites in favor of minorities with wealthy backgrounds.
It takes tremendous courage to speak the truth. I am sure he is being called a racist. I am also sure the enlightened left is calling for him to be terminated. It's scary what happens when you express an opinion that does not follow the leftist SJW narrative.
Luckily you still have your safe space, letsrun.com, the last bastion of free speech, where you are able to call black people stupid as much as you like.
What's so strange about this sort of thing is that those in favor of affirmative action don't seem to have any knowledge whatsoever that it actually ends up hurting the people that it's supposed to help. People from certain groups are let in despite not meeting criteria and as a result end up in the bottom 10% of their class, often times dropping out completely (after wracking up tens of thousands of dollars of debt and wasting 1-2 years of their life). There have been studies looking into this, and they show that the more disproportionate the standards are between groups, the worse off the lower groups are in the long run because they can't keep up with the rest of the students.
Also, with AA, why would anyone ever want a black doctor, lawyer, etc when statistically speaking it's likely they were in the bottom 10% of the their class. Make standards the same or roughly the same across the board and then you don't have this problem.
I became a doctor before standards were lowered. Who wants a doctor that is below standards and is only a doctor because of their skin color... Now I get painted with the same brush and am also seen as sub-standard. This is not the way to affect change.
What's up Dr. Dre?
Ahhh. What a bastion of equality and fair treatment this message board is.
It takes tremendous courage to speak the truth. I am sure he is being called a racist. I am also sure the enlightened left is calling for him to be terminated. It's scary what happens when you express an opinion that does not follow the leftist SJW narrative.
You're so f*****g intelligent that you couldn't take the time to actually read the article, which states in its opening sentences that he's an emeritus professor. Or maybe you're too dumb to know that that essentially means he's retired. They can't take anything of note from an emeritus professor. He's also protected by tenure and academic freedom, things you saltines hate.
Its not just in medical school where this lowering of standards comes into play.
You can start in HS where grade inflation is out of control to maintain "equity". This is such a disservice to the inner city/rural kids who they think they are helping. They flounder in college and wonder why they cant complete with their suburban peers who were held to higher standards. Most end up dropping out or changing majors within a semester.
This is also a big reason why colleges still turn to the SAT to see who can really make it in college.
Grade inflation is everywhere. Read what Harvard professors were writing 30 years ago (when Harvard was 85%+ white) about the pressure placed upon them to inflate the grades of their (almost all white) students.
I wouldn't presume that anybody in America is qualified to do anything just because they have a degree or certification. This is a land of slackers, weed smokers, pants saggers, idiots who read headlines instead of whole articles, saltines who think they're smarter than they are, and other assorted nitwits.
these thoughts have been on my mind for a while now. I have never seen them expressed from someone with a voice like a former dean of a PRESTIGIOUS medical school. I have to say that I AGREE. We spend tons of time talking about the social determinants of health. My classmates trip over themselves to display how “aware” and “woke” they are. Invocation of “Institutionalized racism” is always treated like a profound contribution to any discussion or issue. To me it seems like a case of the emperor’s new clothes
Over-corrections occur. They are common. Call it out when necessary, but don't lose your mind over it. Bad ideas are many, as are good intentions wedded to bad ideas, and good ideas taken too far. This is life.
Did they not teach you the difference between "effect" and affect" in doctor school?
I don’t know what you’re getting at. Affect is the correct usage. You do not effect change, you affect change. The former would mean the change is the result of an already completed action. The latter means you want to affect change in the future with actions today. He is clearly talking about affecting change for the future.
All you did was prove you are an ignorant dingleberry who probably never went to college, or aspired to be a doctor and flunked so you have this pent up envy to try to outsmart doctors. But you failed, again.
If by minorities you mean everyone except East and south Asians, that might be true. Asians are overrepresented in medicine, they’ll have to have better grades and MCAT scores than an equivalent white or black student to get in.
What's so strange about this sort of thing is that those in favor of affirmative action don't seem to have any knowledge whatsoever that it actually ends up hurting the people that it's supposed to help. People from certain groups are let in despite not meeting criteria and as a result end up in the bottom 10% of their class, often times dropping out completely (after wracking up tens of thousands of dollars of debt and wasting 1-2 years of their life). There have been studies looking into this, and they show that the more disproportionate the standards are between groups, the worse off the lower groups are in the long run because they can't keep up with the rest of the students.
Also, with AA, why would anyone ever want a black doctor, lawyer, etc when statistically speaking it's likely they were in the bottom 10% of the their class. Make standards the same or roughly the same across the board and then you don't have this problem.
Thomas Sowell is one of the laziest people in academia. The guy re-wrote the same book over and over for 40 years straight, pretending that he had something new to say via the novel method of slapping a different title onto the same old idea set each time. Then he decided that that was too much effort and he started writing ranty op-eds, which is only one step up from posting on letsrun.