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Thoughts on it?
We're seeing it now with pre-med suddenly finding out right before AMCAS open that they're 1/48th related to Sacagawea.
 
Nothing new under the sun, and there will be little consequence:

“Elizabeth Warren has pushed back hard on questions about a Harvard Crimson piece in 1996 that described her as Native American, saying she had no idea the school where she taught law was billing her that way and saying it never came up during her hiring a year earlier, which others have backed up.
But a 1997 Fordham Law Review piece described her as Harvard Law School's "first woman of color," based, according to the notes at the bottom of the story, on a "telephone interview with Michael Chmura, News Director, Harvard Law (Aug. 6, 1996)."
 
IL1B said:
I shadowed a faculty physician at my state university located in the urban setting. I was very surprised at the physician's response to me towards the end of my shadowing. I'm a person of color, immigrant, my parents never finished grammar school and english is my 2nd language. The doctor told me that I am not only a URM but she/he saw me advocate for the patients in clinic between patients, telling me this is exactly why people with URM are needed in medical school. I essentially asked the physician if doctors in general considered the educational, social-economic, immigrant, language deficit, formidable obstacles in their lives before quickly routinely prescribing yet another drug to treat their illness. It seemed to me, as I told the doctor, that prescribing meds only provides a bandaid. Where was the education? Where was the need to see them more often in clinic to allow them to be taught about nutrition, addictive behaviors, adopting new lifestyle choices, coaching them and other necessary modalities?

However with being a URM comes a lot of sadness, baggage, painful memories and the like. I was wondering how other URM feel about this designation being "coveted" by applicants, as this WSJ article details, even if these applicants had a pretty cushy life.

I do not like the URM label but I do feel those of us who fit the bill have certain insight to patients that perhaps other physicians might not appreciate.
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I think it might be worth considering how little you know about the inner thoughts of other doctors with this statement
 
IL1B said:
I shadowed a faculty physician at my state university located in the urban setting. I was very surprised at the physician's response to me towards the end of my shadowing. I'm a person of color, immigrant, my parents never finished grammar school and english is my 2nd language. The doctor told me that I am not only a URM but she/he saw me advocate for the patients in clinic between patients, telling me this is exactly why people with URM are needed in medical school. I essentially asked the physician if doctors in general considered the educational, social-economic, immigrant, language deficit, formidable obstacles in their lives before quickly routinely prescribing yet another drug to treat their illness. It seemed to me, as I told the doctor, that prescribing meds only provides a bandaid. Where was the education? Where was the need to see them more often in clinic to allow them to be taught about nutrition, addictive behaviors, adopting new lifestyle choices, coaching them and other necessary modalities?

However with being a URM comes a lot of sadness, baggage, painful memories and the like. I was wondering how other URM feel about this designation being "coveted" by applicants, as this WSJ article details, even if these applicants had a pretty cushy life.

I do not like the URM label but I do feel those of us who fit the bill have certain insight to patients that perhaps other physicians might not appreciate.
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I’m curious, is the bolded billable for physicians? I’m a URM who’s transitioning from PT to becoming a physician (and no patient education alone is billable for PT). So I can already say, the bolded takes a lot of time and the current healthcare climate barely allows allied health professionals time in their day to do that with patients, so I could imagine it’s almost impossible for a physician to do so, unless it’s delivered in other ways, such as a dietician in the clinical suite or pamphlets, community education, etc.

Of course generalizations can’t be applied to an entire group, but I will say hands down I almost never saw any of my colleagues take into account circumstances that may prevent patients from “compliance”. How do you expect someone to walk 30 minutes a day when they live in a rural area on a 55 mph road? Or in gang territory? Seeing the world from someone else’s eyes is very hard, but it is much appreciated when people make the effort.

The concept of privilege can have many different definitions, including color of skin, socioeconomic level, etc. I am extremely thankful I was privileged enough to have amazing parents who taught me to work hard and use my brain to get where I want to go. “The arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice”
 
This isn't that surprising, but it is upsetting. I'm glad that it is being brought to light so that it can provide an example to others.
 
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