The American Medical Association logo at its office in Washington, Aug. 30, 2020. PHOTO: ANDREW KELLY/REUTERS
Virtually all medical schools admit black and Hispanic applicants with scores on the Medical College Admission Test that would be all but disqualifying if presented by white and Asian applicants, and some schools waive the MCATs entirely for select minority students. Courses on racial justice and advocacy are flooding into medical school curricula; students are learning more about white privilege and less about cell pathology.
Heather Mac Donald in the WSJ Excellent throughout.
This is ridiculous and embarrassing; woke medicine, really? Maybe woke medical licenses soon? We need medical graduates to work in rural and inner city settings, and we must recruit and retain staff somehow to do so, as incentives can never overcome the existing reality of practice economics. The alternatives would be a national healthcare that assigns people where needed, or making people travel even further outside their communities for care, surely even less desirable solutions?