Lets analyze this. Did I mention being politically correct? Did I say not to be critical? I said the concept of professionalism, your ability to discuss with your colleagues and someday your patients in a respectful and persuasive manner, especially when disagreeing with them. And you will have patients who you need to persuade over conditions and treatments and be supportive and compassionate with their families. Seems to me that MLK was very often not "politically" correct but certainly was always professional and was the main "persuader " for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Not sure if there is a more poignant example than that. Kind of interesting that you found it "******ed" the opinion of perhaps two of the highest ranked African-Americans admissions deans to US medical schools, especially when all I asked was to explain why you thought it was inappropriate for a non-physician to hold such a post. Perhaps maybe the Yale-trained attorney who has been admissions director/dean at Johns Hopkins for years now thought he could influence diversity in medicine. Then again what can a lawyer really do to, especially an African-American one to influence American medicine? Its not like the first African-American president, a constitutional lawyer, could promote and pass the most influential program in healthcare in America since 1965? Yeah, I guess you gotta be a physician for any of this to matter. Oh, that was sarcasm, in case you have trouble with that concept
