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Here is a quote from a Premedical Book:
"I am talking also to the premed dropout and the unsuccessful applicant: students from minority groups, borderline nonminority students, those with financial problems, women"
Is it just me, or that a bit racist? I don't know the language just got me off guard.
When I was younger, in High School, my father bought a book for me, it was basically letters that premeds sent into this physician, and he addressed their concern and finally added an update. I gained so much from that book, and still have it (I've never been able to find it anywhere online! Shame!). Now I've read that book many times, and recently again to see if there was any sort of racism in that book -- none. The writer was just as idealistic and...non judgmental as I'd pictured in my mind.
Fast forward another 20 years, he published a few updates to his book, I never bought them, but then a new one came out for 2013 and I thought why not? My book was getting a bit used so I wanted to preserve it, I bought a new copy and just....so dated, and a bit racist, a little undermining, and overall a book I would recommend to no one.
For fun, I looked up the doctor that wrote these books, and when I did I found a review about some adult (then child) saying he'd behaved inappropriately with them. Now I'm taking that at that...it's one review and I don't know him or his practice, might've just been a random malicious post.
But like, it's nuts to me how one's perspective can change so radically over the years and just have your vision of someone be so tarnished. Reaffirms my beliefs that role models can never be good as looking up to the person you see yourself becoming.
Thoughts?
"I am talking also to the premed dropout and the unsuccessful applicant: students from minority groups, borderline nonminority students, those with financial problems, women"
Is it just me, or that a bit racist? I don't know the language just got me off guard.
When I was younger, in High School, my father bought a book for me, it was basically letters that premeds sent into this physician, and he addressed their concern and finally added an update. I gained so much from that book, and still have it (I've never been able to find it anywhere online! Shame!). Now I've read that book many times, and recently again to see if there was any sort of racism in that book -- none. The writer was just as idealistic and...non judgmental as I'd pictured in my mind.
Fast forward another 20 years, he published a few updates to his book, I never bought them, but then a new one came out for 2013 and I thought why not? My book was getting a bit used so I wanted to preserve it, I bought a new copy and just....so dated, and a bit racist, a little undermining, and overall a book I would recommend to no one.
For fun, I looked up the doctor that wrote these books, and when I did I found a review about some adult (then child) saying he'd behaved inappropriately with them. Now I'm taking that at that...it's one review and I don't know him or his practice, might've just been a random malicious post.
But like, it's nuts to me how one's perspective can change so radically over the years and just have your vision of someone be so tarnished. Reaffirms my beliefs that role models can never be good as looking up to the person you see yourself becoming.
Thoughts?
