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As someone applying to medical school this cycle, trust me it's worse than you can even imagine. The SINGLE MOST common question on secondaries (the supplemental applications sent directly by medical schools) is some variation of "How will you contribute to the ~DiVeRsiTy~ of ____ School of Medicine?" Not to mention the countless other social justice questions you have to answer.

Every school also has a Diversity Equity and Inclusion Board. Yayyy I'll be $300,000 in debt, but at least I'll have a couple dozen "diversity officers" with bloated six figure salaries to harangue me about racism for four years! Two years later and the front page of almost every medical school website is still filled with photos of their activist med students with signs about George Floyd (outside in masks of course).

Last, but certainly not least, affirmative action in medical school is INSANE. It's funny that this article is about Yale because in June when I was discussing schools to apply to with my premed advisor, she literally told me "yeah I don't know much about Yale, I've only gotten black students in there." She then proceeded to burst into laughter. During a one-on-one meeting earlier this year she told me to aim for at least a 515 on the MCAT, but during a meeting with a bunch of other premed students she casually slipped in "yeah and if you are African American probably a 508 is good enough." In undergraduate admissions, affirmative action is at least considered a taboo, but in medical school admissions the disparities are so much more pronounced that they don't even bother trying to downplay it.

There's also no pretense that affirmative action has anything to do with redressing past grievances. The SOLE basis for preferential treatment for URM (underrepresented in medicine) groups is that black and hispanic patients tend to report higher rates of satisfaction with doctors of the same race. Finally for conservatives obsessed with only talking about affirmative action as it pertains to Asians - Asian and White medical school matriculants have the same GPA and Asians only have a slightly higher MCAT (which I would honestly attribute to the fact that Asians are more likely to reside in states with more competitive medical schools, thus necessitating higher MCAT scores to have a chance at acceptance) Source: https://www.aamc.org/media/6066/download?attachment

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You're absolutely right. And it doesn't end there: It may sound crazy, but every major (and most of the minor) medical centers from Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, The Cleveland Clinic, Memorial Sloan Kettering, The Mayo Clinic, NYU Langone Health, Penn Medicine - every one of them has an Office of Diversity & Inclusion. The focus is on "Cultural Competence" - there are in services held on these topics every month. These big mega centers will try to tell you who you should be voting for because it "benefits the hospital," and you are supposed to believe that means it benefits you. And you are watched. You have to list your employer if you ever make a contribution to a candidate - it's public information. It's highly political.

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The patients aren't "dead." They're "differently lived." Another way to put it is that the hospital has achieved "breathing diversity."

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Yale has become a real cesspit..

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Very interesting that they didn't treat him when he was white. Only when he turned blue, they decided to take interest in his struggle (to live).

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Thank you for sharing your important perspective on this important albeit dreadful matter Ann.

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It should always be the best person for the job but I don't know if diversity is the culprit here.

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If a car performed that terribly......it would be recalled and discontinued [see the Corvair and Ralph Nader]. That's what should happen to these hospitals. Recall them and re-open with competent people......you know - the kind that want to keep you alive! [that's the best Ms. Coulter I can muster].

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Bullseye!

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Diversity or lack of it has nothing to do with this man’s death. Rather failure to supervise and properly train emergency room staff has everything to do with this tragic case. It reminds me of a case several years ago of a man who came to Beebe Hospital,in Lewes, DE with heart problems. He was told nothing was wrong, and he went to the waiting room in the early morning hours to wait for a ride or taxi. He had a major heart attack and died in the waiting room and was only discovered after seven hours when a shift changed. American health care is declining, but diversity is not the issue.

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Everyone of you knows what is real. I know what you know. We can post until the end, but the end is surely coming. If we don’t act, we will perish.

I don’t know what to do, maybe one of you does, maybe I’ll figure it out…

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Nothing new in the new medical care----not surprised !

John R Blair 80 yr old retired internist

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Now I don't feel as ignored as the time I went to a CT ER with a double fractured pelvis and, after a quick once-over, was ignored for the next 6 hours while the "gentleman" in prison shackles occupying the room next door and his 2 guards had every need catered to (drinks, snacks, meals, etc). Buzz, Buzz, Buzz and I could not even get a drink of water. After 6 hours I had a friend bring me a Quater Pounder and fries...as she strolled down the hall towards my room she was followed by the ER's supervisory MD and nurse who followed her into my room (first human presence in 6 hours) and tried to confiscate my McD's...I ate my burger as I signed myself out and went home. My brother was on the phone with me while this all was occurring and he LHAO. Ps...I was paying over $1000/month to be fully health insured and I think it only made my treatment worse.

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Yet, the DOJ and the CT Atty Gen see nothing wrong with allowing Yale New Haven Healthcare (hospital) to practice the most egregious level of monopoly control as if there were no anti-trust laws...think about it...in-hospital one is under the care of a “hospitalist” which is the lowest paid doctor the hospital can find to employ and now the hospital has been buying up all of the specialty practices so from cradle to grave one is medically cared for by a Yale employee...where is the arms-length protection for the patient...not to mention that all of this is tax-free for Yale against which any private practice or facility must compete while being taxed to subsidize the competition.

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