@BrentAWilliams2 Like the minority kids in my med school class who grew up with wealthy educated parents, went to private schools, and drove Mercedes while getting full rides because of their skin color?
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Frank
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@littleflower673 @yinzer_g @TheoVon While I agree that democrats make it worse, the poor entering the military is a story as old as time.
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@cryptopheresis @yinzer_g @TheoVon Ask yourself why so many kids in AMERICA have few options.
And then don’t ever vote democrat again. They’ve sold out our country with the help of rino repubs 🤯
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I meant the elites and politicians that are leading us into these wars might make different choices if it was their children. It was hard for me to be angry and talk at the same time. I am thankful for to our troops who serve and are far braver than me. And also wtf do i know.
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‘I’M SICK OF RICH PEOPLE NOT PUTTING THEIR F*CKING KIDS OVER IN THESE WARS’ — Theo Von to Joe Rogan ‘PUT YOUR F*CKING HONKY ASS KIDS UP THERE. LET THEM GO SHED SOME F*CKING BLOOD’ ‘Put your f*cking honky little fancy ass f*cking kid up there’
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Theo, the military in the US is 100% voluntary. You don't join the military without knowing you can go into battle at any point in time. It's literally all they train to do. Service members are not victims. No idea where you got this weird narrative that rich kids don't join the military. Every walk of life decides to serve our nation. Rich kids, poor kids, white kids, black kids, hispanic kids, Asian kids, short kids, tall kids. No one "puts their kids in these wars". They all voluntarily join, freely of their own will, to serve their country and every single one of them has decided that their nation's life is more important than their own. Stop with this silly narrative that service members are all poor people who were forced into serving and potentially dying for their nation. It's uninformed, disrespectful and quite frankly ridiculous.
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@real_doc_speaks Even with a license, it’s damn near impossible to practice without board certification outside of a cash pay private practice
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@regstagram I have no problem with black people being in med school.
I have a problem with people getting into med school simply because of their race.
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@cryptopheresis 94% of black people admitted to med school. graduate. still a low attrition rate. give up with this argument dude 🙄. you cant statistics your way out of a disdain of seeing black people in medical school. grow up and stop being entitled.
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Everyone in medicine already knows who this dude is and can probably guess why things didn’t go the way he was expecting them…
Test scores do NOT equal good doctors.
Joseph Younis, MD@YounisJoseph
I scored over a 517 on my MCAT, with perfect scores on my sciences (132/132, 132/132) and had a 3.93 GPA with 2 years of research and lots of leadership positions. Got only 4 interviews and got off a waitlist in May, barely made it.
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Frank retweetledi
This will go down as one of those historic quotes showing the terminal endpoint of medicine getting overtaken by malignant narcissism.
In JOK's first sentence about regret, she expresses a lack of concern for "they" and "people."
The "people" JOK is referring to are her patients - "they" are the ones whose regret she could care less about.
The important thing for JOK is what "I'm interested in..." The "care" she claims to be providing is not meant for her patients but rather herself. The entire field is designed to serve the practitioners' narcissistic desire for false righteousness.
The whole thing is so diabolical, I still find myself wondering how these monsters are capable of it.
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter
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@anonemus349832 @AviBittMD Dextrose?!? You’re going to put dextrose in an IV?!?
Insta-diabetes. Doctors are evil.
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@AviBittMD they put sugar in the iv bags. what more proof of conspiracy do you need. clearly what the acutely ill need is tallow fried ivermectin.
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I don't think people understand that food healthy to eat outside of the hospital is not even remotely the same thing as food healthy to eat while so acutely ill to the point where you need to be hospitalized.
Completely different contexts with very different nutrition demands.
HHS Rapid Response@HHSResponse
.@SecKennedy: “I’m really grateful to the hospital CEOs all across the country who are now starting to adopt good food policy…to make sure that we’re getting American patients the best food in the world.”
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@0xCapicua @PerformativeM They have a 50%+ acceptance rates with scores that Asians only have a 6% chance of acceptance with.
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@PerformativeM I know black ppl who are smart, like as smart as average asians. Offers from any med school they want. I also know blk people that are almost retarded. Still get offers from low tier med schools. If he black and has a 1/50 hit rate he’s prbly dumber than most blacks
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“I was black and had such bad scores I barely got interviews”
Isn’t the flex you think it is.
Your package was the 3 invites dip shit.
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@regstagram Attrition is actually less than 3% overall, but 5.7% for blacks. Almost 2.5x higher.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
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@cryptopheresis you pulled this right out of your ass. med school attrition rates is very low (~3%) nationally.
MCAT scores of > 500 usually predict passing STEP 1 at like 94%. Admissions is just a crap shoot.
there is also no evidence to suggest that lower stat/urms are less qualified
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@regstagram So they are being done a disservice by setting them up for failure.
Their patients and communities also fare worse because they provide worse care.
But I guess it’s okay if a doc gives worse care, as long as they look like the patient, yeah?
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@regstagram It’s not a myopic view. I’d argue affirmative action is the myopic view.
Because when people get into med school who aren’t adequately prepared for it academically, they fail out at a significantly higher rate. And if they didn’t get scholarships, now they have a ton of debt
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@AlyoshaMalenkov @Dr_mac2 @Hstlinghosptlis The black kids I went to med school with had college educated parents and were driving Mercedes.
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The DEI policies don't take into account whether or not the black applicant or their family actually experienced any discrimination. Specifically, black immigrants score higher and are wealthier than African Americans, yet everyone is grouped together, causing immigrants to benefit for no particular reason.
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Listen, if you hatin from outside the club (i.e have never been to medical school) idc about your opinion on medical topics (excluding specific patient experiences).
Even more so if your anon.
Your basically talking to yourself.
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@regstagram I went through it too. While having kids and a full time job l and undergrad courses. I understand the process well.
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@cryptopheresis studying for the mcat is an expensive process (ask me how i know), going to college is an expensive process. Lower SES people in general have lower stats bc it is a proxy for wealth and income. this is what the “distance traveled” metric aims to quantify.
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@regstagram @Dr_mac2 Yes, that’s the justification. Lower SES blacks have it harder so they should get in with lower scores.
That’s what it comes down to. It’s not that people are being picked for intangible skills. It’s that adcoms are trying to correct a perceived wrong.
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@cryptopheresis @Dr_mac2 race has confounds with income. lower SES tends to have lower mcat/gpas (for a variety of reasons). and then most underrepresented minorities tend to be of lower SES.
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@policywishes There’s no evidence to support that Asian applicants as a whole are significantly worse than others “holistically”, yet at any given score, they are much less likely to get in.
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@policywishes He’s not wrong. At the level of the individual there may be some psychopaths with great grades who shouldn’t get in and some saints with mediocre grades who should.
But the numbers as a whole show that certain groups are highly favored.
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Imagine thinking that personality is more important than academic standards. I guess it will be great to have the doctor who laughs his way through a problem in the ER when the science gets hard. I'll take the asshole who can diagnose me rather than this struggle bus.
Dr. Christian Casteel@DrCasteelEM
Everyone who works in medical education knows students/trainees who have top tier metrics but you’d never want treating you or your loved ones. Also it’s much much easier to train an academically below avg student with a great personality/work ethic to be competent and safe to practice independently than it is is to train an elite numbers student who has pathological personality traits to do the same (some argue it’s essentially impossible).
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@regstagram @Dr_mac2 Sure, for any individual that might be true, but we’re talking about the groups as a whole. Black applicants as a whole are roughly 4x more likely to get in with a given score than Asians.
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@cryptopheresis @Dr_mac2 i didnt say that. you did. just because one has high test scores doesnt mean they demonstrate (or communicate) qualities that medical schools are looking for.
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@deadangle111 @FrenlyOfficer I think that even white people acknowledge that Asians are the most harmed by affirmative action policies.
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Medical school admission is a giant scam which has to pretend that “holistic” admissions policies matter in order to justify the massive amount of affirmative action that occurs in order to exclude White men.
Xoxo@chicfryrice
Plenty of Americans want to be doctors. Our medical schools require 4.0 GPAs and 528 MCAT to get in and those with a 3.5 science GPA don’t get in. This is drastically different than the medical school requirements 30 years ago. American taxpayers pay for resident salaries at hospitals through Medicare. And 30% of resident spots (which are extremely limited) go to non Americans who went to schools that are easier to get into than American medical schools. I don’t understand how people think this is fair or normal
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@regstagram @Dr_mac2 Sure, but are you really going to argue that black applicants are several times better when it comes to extracurriculars compared to their Asian counterparts?
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@cryptopheresis @Dr_mac2 ok. but, as op said. academics alone doesnt determine a good doctor. when was the last time you asked your doctor for their gpa and mcat?
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@pascalrager I think the correct phrasing is 17% of people in the 90% percentile of both got rejected, which is a smaller number. But essentially 1 in 5-6 with those good stats still don’t find a spot.
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Weird number of doctors weighing in to suggest it’s this guys problem.
This is way more common than they seem to realize. Like, almost comically common. I highly doubt there was anything overtly wrong with the application.
Just madness the number of people who seem to weigh in here that I’m betting are fundamentally unfamiliar with the frequency of this story.
Joseph Younis, MD@YounisJoseph
I scored over a 517 on my MCAT, with perfect scores on my sciences (132/132, 132/132) and had a 3.93 GPA with 2 years of research and lots of leadership positions. Got only 4 interviews and got off a waitlist in May, barely made it.
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