The madness about equity and diversity has come to infect American medical schools. According to the Wall Street Journal, major medical schools will no longer base admissions on merit, but will admit or reject applicants on the basis of equity.
So much for following the science.
So, medical schools will be training certain people who cannot do the work. Not only that, but they are advertising it.
Do a thought experiment. Imagine that you are choosing a surgeon to perform a difficult and complex operation. If you manage to have a choice between a doctor you believe was admitted to med school for his superior capacity for empathy and his superior feelings about the downtrodden of the earth and a doctor who you believe is the best surgeon around, which would you choose?
Or better, how can you tell? Call it the working of the free market.
That is not a trick question-- but it draws attention to a point made by Shelby Steele more than two decades ago-- namely that diversity quotas diminish the achievements of all minority candidates.
Now we know what to do with all those students graduating with Health Equity degrees. Send them to medical school!
ReplyDeleteTo the extent that you can select your doctor carefully.
ReplyDeleteAnd equity already hit the legal profession. It will be an interesting and tortuous time for the future victims of equity malpractice.
ReplyDeleteThe British National Health Service has dealt with this problem - you're not allowed to choose anything at all, hospital, doctor, surgeon, or anything. All will be decided for you, by bureaucrats, who know best.
ReplyDeleteThis is called "the envy of the world" /sarc