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
First, Yale is under unbearable guilt for colonizing New Haven, gobbling every inch of real estate except fire stations, schools and it’s emasculated PD, which may have been the goal of its slave trader founder.
But, over at the Law School, a ConLaw prof is advocating eliminating the Constitution. What better way to achieve equity and make merit and competence a fallacy?
My father virtually walked into YNHH six years ago January and left Easter Sunday morning in a hearse. Stressful losing a parent, but I wasn’t prepared for the dysfunction over the three subsequent months. There was no continuity in care, two week changeovers in attending MDs, repetition in questions, and never an answer as to why a man who was teaching college in his 80’s three months earlier, just failed. Seemed like the residents were following a script and could not possibly digest the growing chart. I had no idea what competency the battalion of doctors had who wandered through his room over that three months. Although there was a heavy foreign presence, it was impossible to compare it to the obvious citizen med professionals.
Right up your alley, Ann and this Substack. Heard on a news break this AM before the cancellation that NASA was going to send a woman to the moon. OK, is she a military pilot? Then, I read this. Kamala dictating the female has to be Black.
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].
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.
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.
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
The patients aren't "dead." They're "differently lived." Another way to put it is that the hospital has achieved "breathing diversity."
First, Yale is under unbearable guilt for colonizing New Haven, gobbling every inch of real estate except fire stations, schools and it’s emasculated PD, which may have been the goal of its slave trader founder.
But, over at the Law School, a ConLaw prof is advocating eliminating the Constitution. What better way to achieve equity and make merit and competence a fallacy?
Yale has become a real cesspit..
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).
Thank you for sharing your important perspective on this important albeit dreadful matter Ann.
My father virtually walked into YNHH six years ago January and left Easter Sunday morning in a hearse. Stressful losing a parent, but I wasn’t prepared for the dysfunction over the three subsequent months. There was no continuity in care, two week changeovers in attending MDs, repetition in questions, and never an answer as to why a man who was teaching college in his 80’s three months earlier, just failed. Seemed like the residents were following a script and could not possibly digest the growing chart. I had no idea what competency the battalion of doctors had who wandered through his room over that three months. Although there was a heavy foreign presence, it was impossible to compare it to the obvious citizen med professionals.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/top-med-schools-putting-wokeism-ahead-of-giving-america-good-doctors/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
Right up your alley, Ann and this Substack. Heard on a news break this AM before the cancellation that NASA was going to send a woman to the moon. OK, is she a military pilot? Then, I read this. Kamala dictating the female has to be Black.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/29/curse-kamala-vice-president-harris-desperate-win-less-streak-continues-nasa-scrubs-artemis-launch/
It should always be the best person for the job but I don't know if diversity is the culprit here.
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].
Bullseye!
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.
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…
Nothing new in the new medical care----not surprised !
John R Blair 80 yr old retired internist
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.