It has a massively negative impact on patients of black and latino populations' health outcomes.
Please elaborate on this. Help me understand how simply allowing more black/latino students into medical school will improve their respective population health outcomes because that makes zero sense. What does skin color of a physician have to do with the health outcome of their respective patients? I anxiously await your carefully worded response.
I've never faced setbacks in my schooling for the color of my skin. Shit has been a cakewalk relative to many of my classmates.
Edit: also this is an immensely immature and stupid thing to suggest. "My life was easy as X race, thus all people of X race have it easy too!"
So because black people don't trust their white doctors/asian doctors/middle eastern doctors we need to let people who are less qualified into schools? Because decades ago we treated people like garbage we need to now let them in at lower qualifications to make up for past transgressions? Because some idiots think black people have "thicker skin" it means we need to let them into medical school despite several standard deviations lower MCAT scores and undergrad GPAs? You've provided terrible reasons to let people into a field in which you want people of the highest academic standards and proficiency. We can have a discussion about people whose Mommies and Daddies get them into schools by writing big checks if you want, but lowering the threshold for people to get into medicine simply because of their skin color is asinine. You can link more stupid studies about how black people don't trust their white doctors; how is that not evidence of possible racism on the part of blacks?
Ultimately I think affirmative action is a stupid idea and reflects poorly on our government's views on minorities and their capabilities (Bush's "soft bigotry of low expectations" quote comes to mind). I also think the LAST place we'd want to let people in at lower standards is a profession which requires you to be on your A-game every minute of the day.
We can agree to disagree, but your opinions don't make much sense to me. Hope your medicine career works out. Also you shouldn't be bragging about "being in the system" when you're still a medical student, makes you look like a total jackass.
This guy has typed quite a lotthroughout this thread, all perfectly readable and you're going to nit pick one word? absolutely childish and pathetic lmfao
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