Fine, I will support your right to have the most diverse medical team performing your open heart surgery. Hope that works out for you.
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Marie, is diversity INCOMPATIBLE with merit, quality or excellence?
I just googled:
“There are roughly 45,000 cardiothoracic surgeons in the United States. The majority of these surgeons are men, with an average age of 56 years.”
Whites are 76%.
"Aside from the inherent benefits of a diverse, inclusive, and socially just environment, correcting the physician diversity gap leads to improved patient care. Patients report improved satisfaction with their healthcare when they are treated by a same-ethnicity provider.
Same-ethnicity physicians may engage patients and their family using shared cultural context and language better than physicians from different ethnicities.
Same-ethnicity physicians can also provide cultural insight and perhaps education to the entire care team, which may improve patient compliance.
Underrepresented minority physicians are also more likely to care for minority patient populations
Therefore, closing diversity gaps within the medical community may help alleviate racial disparities as the US population continues to diversify.
So the point LITERALLY IS, minority physicians IMPROVE CARE for those populations. HOW ON EARTH WOULD THESE RESULTS EVER BE CONSIDERED A BAD THING MARIE?
You’re NOT assuming INCOMPETENT people are being advanced, are you? Having more experts is actually needed. We need more doctors. Are you thinking their education is inadequate? Where is the bias? I cannot identify a logical, non-racial reason to be biased.
Merit is fine! 2 meritous qualified candidates, if you have patients of color and no physician of color, then hire the QUALIFIED PHYSICIAN OF COLOR.
That, in a nutshell, is DEI. Whatever weird distorted and poisoned version you believe it is, is so disappointingly predictable.
“Merit is fine! 2 meritous qualified candidates, if you have patients of color and no physician of color, then hire the QUALIFIED PHYSICIAN OF COLOR.
That, in a nutshell, is DEI. Whatever weird distorted and poisoned version you believe it is, is so disappointingly predictable.”
DEI is poison. There is not version of it that does not discriminate based on immutable characteristics.
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Kim, would you explain to me your understanding of the origins of DEI? Who were the people who brought it into our universities and institutions? What were their motives?
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Cite the research that supports diversity of skin color/gender/etc improves any outcome. Explain the statistical analyses to me.
I will wait.
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where were you during segregation?you would have been a big help in ending it.
Answer: Merit, quality and excellence are descriptions of measurements on some defined scale that rates something or someone, either because of performance or innate characteristic. Since there is a scale, the things being measured will range from high to low on the scale.
I submit that you are simply substituting a characteristic - skin color - as your measurement of what constitutes merit.
I will never agree to that as a just, fair method of rewarding people’s effort.
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