Melody McAllister

@drterrysimpson Just curious, when the black students get into Med school, do they perform any worse than the other students?

And another thing these discussions constantly flatten: “Asian” is treated online as though it were a single coherent category with identical histories, opportunities, cultures, immigration patterns, and representation in medicine. A Hmong refugee family, a recent Vietnamese immigrant, a Filipino student from a working-class background, a Pakistani applicant, and the child of affluent professionals may have profoundly different lived experiences and educational opportunities. Admissions committees actually understand this complexity. Public-health researchers understand it too. The people screaming loudest online about “merit” often seem unable to process that human beings are more complicated than census boxes and percentile rankings.

@coolhand_850 @YVemula5063 He watched the little new born baby in the group riding on its mother’s back and decided he’s gonna get himself a ride on some monkey’s back too

@YVemula5063 That rascal likes piggy back rides. He always gets to ride and doesn't have to do any work. My boy Bobby Puncharello is no dummy.

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@WarbearWojtek @Kyr504 @MilennialBoom It’s been since 1865 and…? What about that group?

@McAl65210 @Kyr504 @MilennialBoom And then? Black folks decided to venture out. Try to be with the white folk. But yeah, Tulsa. Its been 105 years and black folks havent managed to "replicate" Tulsa, now have they? And why is that?

You ain’t seen poverty like Southern & Deep South poverty. And you get tripped out by how many poor whites you see. That’s when your mind gets real blown. 100% Republican led & been that way for generations. City poverty ain’t got nothing on rural poverty…

@GordonWalker13 @drterrysimpson Your ‘99’ hasn’t been subjected to the same stressors that the ‘95’ has been subjected to - poverty, parents who have no idea how they can help with homework, negative peer pressure in the neighborhood and on social media, no tutors, little encouragement, parent incarceration etc

@drterrysimpson The question is not about capable or not. It’s about the same qualifying standards for extremely competitive, elite spots. Of course 95 is excellent and capable. Just not 99. How is this even a discussion?

And there it is. A person in the 95th percentile nationally is now declared lacking in “merit” because someone else scored in the 99th percentile. This is exactly the reductionist ideology many of us in medicine reject. You are no longer distinguishing between qualified and unqualified. You are constructing a caste system inside the extreme right tail of human performance and then pretending the tiny numerical differences between extraordinarily gifted people fully determine future physician quality. Medicine learned long ago that they do not. The irony is extraordinary: the same people who insist medicine is about “merit” keep defining merit so narrowly that judgment, communication, leadership, resilience, professionalism, empathy, trust, composure under pressure, and clinical decision-making barely count at all. The body does not care what percentile you scored in organic chemistry when the operating room suddenly becomes quiet. And this is the part he cannot seem to process: a student scoring in the 95th percentile nationally would rank above the average admissions metrics of most medical schools in America, including many schools producing excellent physicians every year. Yet he speaks as though such applicants are academically suspect because others scored slightly higher on a standardized exam. This man does not understand what makes a doctor. He understands numerical sorting, prestige signaling, and hierarchy. Medicine is far more complicated than that. And yes, predictably, his response will be to call anyone racist who refuses to believe that tiny percentile differences among extraordinarily gifted human beings fully determine future physician quality.

@drterrysimpson “.. This man does not understand what makes a doctor. He understands numerical sorting, prestige signaling, and hierarchy. Medicine is far more complicated than that…”!! Doctor! You’re killing it! Tell them, doc!

@LSU_Tigahs @LDonivan @Kyr504 @MilennialBoom So the governor is taking control to make things better, or to fight progress? I’ve visited some places in the south and seen for ex. towns with no central sewage systems. Homes had individual septic systems & some couldn’t afford to service them regularly so the whole town stunk

@LDonivan @Kyr504 @MilennialBoom The city council and mayor continued to refuse all outside help from the state and fought Bidens agent sent to correct all the issues cause he kept digging up evidence showing their gross mismanagement. This is why the governor is now taking control of the water away from them

@WarbearWojtek @Kyr504 @MilennialBoom Tulsa, OK had the railroad too, and then something happened…? That city had been growing in leaps and bounds and then..?

@Kyr504 @MilennialBoom Wrong. Its was about the railroad and industry. Had the railroad picked Birmingham, AL instead Atlanta would be Birminghma now.

@waltabernathy @dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley Money subsidized by the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! Before Reagan, there was little to no involvement by private banks. Students got GRANTS straight from the government. Cutting the banks in increased the costs to students

@McAl65210 @dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley Banks get money by charging interest on the loans they give out

Clemson is $1.5B in debt. Syracuse is closing or pausing 93 programs, UNC-Chapel Hill plans to cut spending by $89M over 3 years. Duke recently let 600 employees go in a $350M budget cut. Indiana public colleges announced a plan to eliminate or merge 580 programs statewide.

@homeprodad @NYCMayor Health insurance too! The public option

@NYCMayor Mamdani is a genius! This idea has totally never been tried before and will totally work. Why didn’t I think of this? He should make housing free next. Better yet, the government should control all means of production.

In the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be going hungry. That's why we're opening five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough, starting with The Bronx. Lower Prices. Good food. Publicly owned. Hunts Point next year. Every borough by 2029.

@Shankar47322027 @drterrysimpson But there ARE very many Asians in the field! Good doctors too. It’s just that, say a black person may listen better to a black doctor than an Asian doctor, easing the increase in the use preventative care. The end goal after all is to provide healthcare to all for a healthy popn

@drterrysimpson You are literally making it harder for Asian minorities to get accepted. How does that help diversity? Also you can't use "diversity" to justify differential treatment on race. Also technology and science help people more than color matching doctors.

The revealing part of this debate is that overrepresentation of some groups is quietly assumed to reflect “competence,” while underrepresentation of others is assumed to reflect inferiority. That is not objective reasoning. That is ideology disguised as meritocracy. Medicine has never selected physicians through a single exam score. Admissions committees evaluate communication, leadership, resilience, judgment, professionalism, empathy, service, adversity, and the ability to function in a diverse society caring for vulnerable human beings. And importantly, the actual evidence does not show that small MCAT differences among already highly capable applicants reliably predict who becomes the best physician. Meanwhile, we do have evidence that physician diversity improves trust, underserved access, preventive care uptake, and some health outcomes. What is striking is the underlying assumption some people seem to carry: that Black physicians are somehow presumptively “less qualified.” Do they ask their White physician what MCAT score they received? Do they request board scores before an appendectomy? Or is this obsession with standardized testing only activated when discussing minority doctors? That is the uncomfortable question sitting beneath much of this conversation.

@Jeffreyhbaird @drterrysimpson 😂😆 Here’s one that just can’t get good Orgo grades🤣 Organic chemistry uses a different part of the brain from what you use to get your top-rank Math grades. A good doctor needs a brain that uses a lot of its parts

@drterrysimpson You're not racist, Doctor. You're good character. But your argument is nonsense if you require higher MCATs for Whites/Asians. Lower it or drop it and focus on resilience and leadership in the same way for everyone. Same with Organic Chemistry grades. Passing should be enough.

What a strange little performance this is. A man who likely benefited his entire life from invisible networks of class, education, geography, culture, and social familiarity suddenly discovers an almost priestly devotion to “pure objectivity” the instant diversity enters the conversation. You people speak of the MCAT the way medieval clergy spoke of holy relics — as though a standardized exam has descended from Sinai untouched by wealth, coaching, privilege, educational inequality, or institutional advantage. And the truly comic part is watching grown adults scream “racism” because medical schools dare consider that physicians might need qualities beyond competitive bubble-sheet filling. Medicine is practiced on terrified human beings, not on Scantrons. But outrage merchants cannot survive nuance. Their business model requires panic, caricature, and the perpetual fantasy that society was once a flawless meritocracy until minorities arrived to spoil the arithmetic.

@Vacquero_Loco @dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley Oooh, he can spell too! What a smart doctor!

@McAl65210 @dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley I’m not from Kansas, but you go ahead and feel special, fukkin retard.

@NinyeTabz @woundedUgandan His outreach is way up there. They will always say that they don’t take him seriously but they never skip his vids.

You guys need to stop disregarding my brother Lumbuye! Only issue is that you don’t like watching long videos to get information that could be delivered in 280 characters or less! Naye ki guy kili gumitte!

@_____1776_____ @dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley And right back at you, Sir Skinny legs

@McAl65210 @dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley Lmfao at you

@TomECaster @dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley Aah, so I’m correct. So easy to pick out the MAGA bots 😜

@McAl65210 @dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley No, it wouldn’t, retard 😂

@Vacquero_Loco @dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley Says the Kansas hillbilly who calls himself Dr.Klong lol 😂

@McAl65210 @dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley It’s pretty obvious that you are uneducated.

@immaculatenabu @NativeLandgrab Hold onto your documents.

That Judge that said it out loud in court that how can a common person have all those acres of land while Moses Kalangwa and his team were teething in court that day hope God does the same to you

@glblume @ShashiJairam @drantbradley Will lead them to opening tattoo parlors and cannabis shops, and they’ll be saying, “College is useless”!

@ShashiJairam @drantbradley See how far a high school education will get you

@dhurstell @lil_yawni @drantbradley Where did the bank get that money? Wouldn’t be from taxpayers now, would it?

@lil_yawni @drantbradley No, because you took a loan from a bank to pay the college. It's pretty obvious you got an education degree

@LqLana Child abuse! How can you watch a child in such distress and just look on?

Republicans in Knox County, TN are banning Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize novel ‘Roots’ because they say it makes white kids uncomfortable. But they are cool with whatever this is. #DemsUnited