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I have no desire to comment my opinion on the ongoing thread about racism, DEI, and AA in general but I do want to say that every single minority in my med school class was rich. I didn't realize that was a thing until speaking with a few other people at different institutions who noticed the same thing. Gives me more questions than answers...So why don’t we simply give some extra points for those low on the socioeconomic ladder instead of brining race into it at all?
All schools get detailed tax/financial info from families to determine aid- it would be the simplest thing to use this info and erase the race thing completely.
Because right now with the current AA system we ARE penalizing poor people (just ones of certain skin tones- while advantaging others).
So my completely serious question is if a rich as hell Nigerian is actually going to go to some poor community and take care of poor blacks? I'm from what many consider a black city so it's hard to tell. Same for some rich guy from Mexico or whatever you want to include.
Finally, I could buy minority physician-same minority patient outcomes in primary care are better than otherwise. Primary care is basically trying to herd cats. Anything has to help a little toward getting a bunch of ridiculous people to be compliant and thus have better outcomes. I really don't buy a 5 minute pre-op chat from a same minority anesthesiologist changing real outcomes even if I do believe it would create a rapport more reliably.
Anyways, I don't really have any answers and mostly just wonder why people can't just be decent to one another and move along with their day.
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