1959 to now...

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I feel like it is easy to forget what a privilege and blessing it is to get accepted to any medical school, regardless MD or DO. I came across this earlier and wanted to share this. We have truly come a long way!

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[Mkif586]

And it’s been just 3 generations ago, how fast the world changes
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[armybound]

wow. that's powerful

 

[Goro]

And it’s been just 3 generations ago, how fast the world changes
(Though I wish app fee was $5 again)

tell me about it! I've lived through it!

Here's a another time facet: The Stonewall riots in 1969 in NYC are generally marked as the start of the gay liberation movement. The Supreme Court determined that gay people had a right to marry in 2015. Coming pretty far on both counts!

 

[A Ryan Seacrest Type]

What a somber reminder. And yeah We’ve come a long way, but still a longer road ahead awaits for true equality in the medical field and society

 

[Booksandshoes]

tell me about it! I've lived through it!

Here's a another time facet: The Stonewall riots in 1969 in NYC are generally marked as the start of the gay liberation movement. The Supreme Court determined that gay people had a right to marry in 2015. Coming pretty far on both counts!

I wonder how much progress will be made in addressing institutional racism in healthcare in three more generations, such as high maternal mortality among African-American women. While positive progress has been made, I feel like more is being and can be done by all of us.

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[Goro]

I wonder how much progress will be made in addressing institutional racism in healthcare in three more generations, such as high maternal mortality among African-American women. While positive progress has been made, I feel like more is being and can be done by all of us.

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I'm an optimist on this score, and now that at least people are talking about it, I trust that something can be done, especially with my generation bowing out.

I'll share one thought with you. I was deeply pessimistic when that CA case on gay marriage went to the Supreme Court. I thought, there's no way they're going to allow it...it's too soon.

Thankfully, I was wrong!

 

[Dantrolene FC]

I wonder how much progress will be made in addressing institutional racism in healthcare in three more generations, such as high maternal mortality among African-American women. While positive progress has been made, I feel like more is being and can be done by all of us.

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How is that intstitutional racism?

 

[Mkif586]

I think this thread needs to be moved to spf, we all know where it’s heading

 

[allantois]

He actually went on to become an ObGyn

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[LizzyM]

There was a reason for the historically black universities to operate medical schools... they were the only options for black students in the south. Likewise, the National Medical Association was established because membership in the AMA was predicated on being a member of your state medical assocation and those assocations in the south were not open to Negro physicians.

The more you know...

 

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I feel like it is easy to forget what a privilege and blessing it is to get accepted to any medical school, regardless MD or DO. I came across this earlier and wanted to share this. We have truly come a long way!View attachment 295673

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Wow. 60 years ago I wouldn't be allowed to apply to medical school.

Sickening. I'm disgusted that I applied to Emory this year.

 

[Goro]

Wow. 60 years ago I wouldn't be allowed to apply to medical school.

Sickening. I'm disgusted that I applied to Emory this year.

The Emory of now is not the Emory of then.

 

[Booksandshoes]

In the words of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to recieve a MD in America (1847), “It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.” All the medical schools she applied to rejected her on basis of her gender but one, Geneva Medical College (now Hobart College), New York. The world will continue to change, but we can learn from and appreciate the efforts of all of these pioneers in medicine.

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[Booksandshoes]

She entered medical school in 1847. She graduated on January 23, 1849.

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[Dantrolene FC]

This was true for Jews and Catholics as well for college, medical school and hospitals

Even for the North too.

 

[LizzyM]

This was true for Jews and Catholics as well for college, medical school and hospitals

Not in the North. My pediatrician was a graduate of Yale School of Medicine, class of 1928 if I recall correctly, and a life long Catholic. Although there may have been a cap or quota.

 

[Dantrolene FC]

It’s amazing how things have changed...