Posted On: Friday - May 24th 2024 10:28PM MST
In Topics: University Race/Genetics Healthcare Stupidity
"Yeah, of course, I'm not headed to India just for my knee replacement - I'm going for the cuisine, and I figure, well, while I'm there..."
I read this Washington Free Beacon article, 'A Failed Medical School': How Racial Preferences, Supposedly Outlawed in California, Have Persisted at UCLA from an Instapundit link first. I should have figured Steve Sailer would be all over this one, as it hits close to home for him.
That is, besides this article being right in his wheelhouse - Steve Sailer has long been "noticing" the deleterious effect of Affirmative Action* and its more potent generic replacement Wokeness - also, UCLA is near his residence. He's not a young guy, and at some point he may need really important healthcare services from a medical facility that used to be highly esteemed.
This ought to hit home for ANYBODY above a certain age. We're not talking customer "care" or tech support on the phone here, cashiers who can't make change, or hack-job auto repair. The less proficient, to put it mildly, doctors that graduate UCLA's David Geffen (the music guy?) School of Medicine may maim and kill you in the future. People may want to put aside for a moment their extreme virtuousness, say, when it's their cardiac stent insertion on the line.
Steve Sailer noted, to me, probably unfairly, that "Aaron Sibarium is that rarity, a journalist for a conservative publication who does actual investigative journalism." Yes, I agree completely that writer Aaron Sibarium did some serious Journalism here:
This story is based on written correspondence between UCLA officials, internal data on student performance, and interviews with eight professors at the medical school—six of whom have worked with or under Lucero on medical student and residency admissions.It's not just a scoop but the kind of revelation that puts stories like Watergate to shame. I just don't see that left-wing publications are better - they lie more, in fact. (Possibly he means the New York Times, which he, and another person I'll mention later in this post, still honor as some kind of "paper of record".)
I wish I had room to excerpt and comment on this whole article - please, please take the 5 minutes! Note that this real piece of
So when it came time for the admissions committee to consider one such student in November 2021—a black applicant with grades and test scores far below the UCLA average—some members of the committee felt that this particular candidate, based on the available evidence, was not the best fit for the top-tier medical school, according to two people present for the committee's meeting.Yeah, haha, and that rate's going to the moon, lady, if people don't stop your madness.
Their reservations were not well-received.
When an admissions officer voiced concern about the candidate, the two people said, the dean of admissions, Jennifer Lucero, exploded in anger.
"Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?" Lucero asked the admissions officer, these people said. The candidate's scores shouldn't matter, she continued, because "we need people like this in the medical school."
"I have students on their rotation who don't know anything," a member of the admissions committee told the Free Beacon. "People get in and they struggle."If they struggle and flunk out, that has still cost taxpayer money while screwing over candidates who'd be good doctors. They wouldn't be killing anyone via medicine at least.
Within three years of Lucero's hiring in 2020, UCLA dropped from 6th to 18th place in U.S. News & World Report's rankings for medical research. And in some of the cohorts she admitted, more than 50 percent of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.The 2nd half of 4 years of Med School consists of practical training in the hospital.
One professor said that a student in the operating room could not identify a major artery when asked, then berated the professor for putting her on the spot. Another said that students at the end of their clinical rotations don't know basic lab tests and, in some cases, are unable to present patients.Oh, that can't be good.
"UCLA still produces some very good graduates," one professor said. "But a third to a half of the medical school is incredibly unqualified."Those bottom 1/3, what do you call them? "Doctor." In the words of the late Jimmy Buffett, "I don't think I'm gonna ever let 'em cut on me ..." Yeah, but that (Miss you so Badly) was from a half century ago, when you had a choice.
This Lucero character is a 1-woman Woke machine:
Led by Lucero, who also serves as the vice chair for equity, diversity, and inclusion of UCLA's anesthesiology department, the admissions committee routinely gives black and Latino applicants a pass for subpar metrics, four people who served on it said, while whites and Asians need near perfect scores to even be considered.Another example of this:
First-year students spend three to four hours every other week in "Structural Racism and Health Equity," a required class that covers topics like "fatphobia," has featured anti-Semitic speakers, and is now the subject of an internal review. They spend an additional seven hours a week in "Foundations of Practice," which includes units on "interpersonal communication skills" and, according to one medical student, basically "tells us how to be a good person." The two courses eat up time that could be spent on physiology or anatomy, professors say, and leave struggling students with fewer hours to learn the basics.The time wasting aspect is just that, waste, in, say, the Big Biz world. In medical school, it's more serious - what knowledge and experience did the students miss out on during these ~10 hours of their weeks, a significant amount of their waking and now woke time in the day?
As soon as I read this great expose by Aaron Sibarium, I thought about Lionel Shrivers' recent novel Mania. One of the main characters in the book had an operation done by an incompetent doctor. It left him partially maimed and in pain for the rest of his life. Yet, in the book, as per our basic review, the "mental parity" program that allows this stupidity and incompetence is not race/sex related. No, the form of Wokeness that promotes stupidity is just another general flavor, with nothing anti-White about it. In fact, as we noted in our author criticisms, "Yet, Lionel Shriver specifically wrote, in 2 places, words to the effect of 'this MP is different from race and sex discrimination, which are real'." She's either being purposefully stupid herself, or she's scared to be truthful. I don't know why it'd be the latter as she is ensconced in out in Portugal, has F.U. money, and is old enough to not care about hurting feelings or being shunned by the "good people".
It's great that Mr. Sibarium wrote this article. If it gets to enough people, the Wokeness in this realm may actually be reversed. This is where the Wokeness gets downright scary and may overcome the fear in people of getting called names.
I read the article yesterday, and today I see that another VDare writer, Patrick Cleburne has commented on it too. In Who Wrecked UCLA’s Medical School? Jennifer Lucero—Another Woman Of Color Abusing Power., he concentrates on the evil Jennifer Lucero more than stats and the admissions controversy. He has written about "women of color", let's just say non-White** and non-Oriental women, who, when in charge, are running things into the ground. That last phrasing of mine has connotations of being non-purposeful. I wouldn't say that's necessarily true.
* Though, for niceness' sake, I guess, at least in the recent past, Mr. Sailer had still been in favor of some AA, just for Black! descendants of slaves, errr, the enslaved community. I've never read or heard him come out against AA categorically. He sure ought to.
** I wouldn't have even known this Lucero P.O.S. was non-White. She's obviously proud of it.
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[UPDATED 05/25:] Small corrections and additions.
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Comments:
Adam Smith
Saturday - May 25th 2024 8:58AM MST
PS: Good morning, everyone...
Chicana? 1/1024th maybe.(?) Woman of Color? Hardly...
More like a caricature of a self-hating white...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smIMNV3Jx98
https://medschool.ucla.edu/people/jennifer-lucero-md-ma
“Dr. Lucero has ten, count 'em ten, years of experience in medical school admissions and actively participates in the recruitment of underqualified students to the profession of medicine through her “work” in pathway and outreach programs. As a 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐚!, she takes a special interest in diversity issues in medicine and disparities in the delivery of obstetric healthcare to 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! women.”
Yet another “doctor” who has never had a patient in her life. (So lame.) I don't know why they appointed this obviously white lady to be the (checks notes...) "Inaugural Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion." I thought these sinecures were reserved for people of a colour. (Seriously. Is white even a color?)
Silver lining... In the future, when I'm finally old enough to 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 a doctor, I will be able to tell who is qualified just by looking at them.
Though some people may call me names, I will adhere to a strict White Man or Oriental Man only policy.
Unfortunately, I'll probably have to settle for a competent light skinned •Indian as there will be so few White Man or Oriental Man options available.
Who am I kidding. By the time I'm old enough to 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 a doctor there will be no competent doctors left in America.
Happy Saturday! ☮️
Chicana? 1/1024th maybe.(?) Woman of Color? Hardly...
More like a caricature of a self-hating white...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smIMNV3Jx98
https://medschool.ucla.edu/people/jennifer-lucero-md-ma
“Dr. Lucero has ten, count 'em ten, years of experience in medical school admissions and actively participates in the recruitment of underqualified students to the profession of medicine through her “work” in pathway and outreach programs. As a 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐚!, she takes a special interest in diversity issues in medicine and disparities in the delivery of obstetric healthcare to 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! women.”
Yet another “doctor” who has never had a patient in her life. (So lame.) I don't know why they appointed this obviously white lady to be the (checks notes...) "Inaugural Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion." I thought these sinecures were reserved for people of a colour. (Seriously. Is white even a color?)
Silver lining... In the future, when I'm finally old enough to 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 a doctor, I will be able to tell who is qualified just by looking at them.
Though some people may call me names, I will adhere to a strict White Man or Oriental Man only policy.
Unfortunately, I'll probably have to settle for a competent light skinned •Indian as there will be so few White Man or Oriental Man options available.
Who am I kidding. By the time I'm old enough to 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 a doctor there will be no competent doctors left in America.
Happy Saturday! ☮️
Moderator
Saturday - May 25th 2024 7:58AM MST
PS: M, I see that he could have meant it that way, as in, too many "journalists" of all bents don't do anything investigative. I think I'd have put it "... a journalist for a conservative publication who does investigative journalism, a rarity for all of them."
That's all we have here too, though I don't think of it as journalism even, just ranting and entertainment, with a little bit of advice. The entertainment comes easy though, just with the subject matter alone ...
I was going to write that I don't have the time to do the work Mr. Sibarium did here, but that's not the main thing the more I think about it. Remaining anonymous might preclude some of this kind of journalism. That is, I would know more of what to "expose" in my own field, but I don't want to do that - plus, right now it's still just the usual corporate BS - not so much that's as important as the subject of this article.
Regarding the "Think Tanks", yes, they want to stay in business is all. I don't have much respect for them, as plenty of people can think these same thoughts without being in one of these tanks. They are go-to sources for sound bites for politicians. I have more respect for the NRA and the John Birch Society, for examples. The latter tries to get local people involved in a handful of projects. They look at the big picture and try to attack the evil at the local level.
Back to this investigative journalism, rather than give some overriding article of AA/Woke stats in the country, this guy went to the local source of this evil. He really hit the spot on this one. I don't know if it's easy to find another villain like Jennifer Lucero, who's responsible for indirectly killing people in the near future.
That's all we have here too, though I don't think of it as journalism even, just ranting and entertainment, with a little bit of advice. The entertainment comes easy though, just with the subject matter alone ...
I was going to write that I don't have the time to do the work Mr. Sibarium did here, but that's not the main thing the more I think about it. Remaining anonymous might preclude some of this kind of journalism. That is, I would know more of what to "expose" in my own field, but I don't want to do that - plus, right now it's still just the usual corporate BS - not so much that's as important as the subject of this article.
Regarding the "Think Tanks", yes, they want to stay in business is all. I don't have much respect for them, as plenty of people can think these same thoughts without being in one of these tanks. They are go-to sources for sound bites for politicians. I have more respect for the NRA and the John Birch Society, for examples. The latter tries to get local people involved in a handful of projects. They look at the big picture and try to attack the evil at the local level.
Back to this investigative journalism, rather than give some overriding article of AA/Woke stats in the country, this guy went to the local source of this evil. He really hit the spot on this one. I don't know if it's easy to find another villain like Jennifer Lucero, who's responsible for indirectly killing people in the near future.
Moderator
Saturday - May 25th 2024 7:45AM MST
PS: I've tried to avoid doctors my whole life, Alarmist. I think men do that more than women. One time I needed them for something serious. It was an Oriental guy and then and Indian surgeon who fixed me up. Does the mean diversity IS our strength? No, these people came before the big deluge. They learned and have worked within the White built system. This Jennifer Lucerno is destroying it.
That said, so many more people die due to medical mistakes, and have even before all the Wokeness compared to a lot of other major causes of death... even the Covid one-niner!! Best to stay OUT of the hospital, especially overnights, and that's after even thinking about your wallet.
That said, so many more people die due to medical mistakes, and have even before all the Wokeness compared to a lot of other major causes of death... even the Covid one-niner!! Best to stay OUT of the hospital, especially overnights, and that's after even thinking about your wallet.
M
Saturday - May 25th 2024 7:16AM MST
PS
"that rarity, a journalist for a conservative publication who does actual investigative journalism"
I think that was a complaint that far too many of the "journalists" today do no journalism.
Liberals do little, but there's not much conservatives can do about that.
However, too many conservative publications fill their inches with opinion columns. Conservatives could do something about that, in the way of showing liberals how it's actually supposed to be done.
Rather like conservative think tanks, that don't do much thinking. Too many are a place for so-called election strategists to eat between elections, then bill enormous amounts for the same strategies (more carving out of loopholes in the tax code while saying nothing about immigration) during elections.
That both sides see more money in filling the field with opinions than actual finding out what's going on is sad.
"that rarity, a journalist for a conservative publication who does actual investigative journalism"
I think that was a complaint that far too many of the "journalists" today do no journalism.
Liberals do little, but there's not much conservatives can do about that.
However, too many conservative publications fill their inches with opinion columns. Conservatives could do something about that, in the way of showing liberals how it's actually supposed to be done.
Rather like conservative think tanks, that don't do much thinking. Too many are a place for so-called election strategists to eat between elections, then bill enormous amounts for the same strategies (more carving out of loopholes in the tax code while saying nothing about immigration) during elections.
That both sides see more money in filling the field with opinions than actual finding out what's going on is sad.
MBlanc46
Saturday - May 25th 2024 7:09AM MST
PS So, you don’t think that our medical practitioners should “look like” our nation? That RACIST!!! Alarmist: I don’t know your age, but why don’t you check back in when you’re in your late 60s. At 77, I sure don’t like watching my body deteriorate, and yet I still jolly well hope that I wake up tomorrow morning. And the morning after. And the morning after….
The Alarmist
Saturday - May 25th 2024 4:32AM MST
PS
My wife wonders why I refuse to go to any doctors ... especially young ones ... any more.
We were just at a garden centre packed with old folks ... like 70 and 80 somethings, and I uttered, “This is why I want to die young. I don’t want to be that old.”
So she asks if that is why I no longer go to doctors, and I reply “No, my doctor choices were getting to diverse to engender any confidence in their ability.”
My wife wonders why I refuse to go to any doctors ... especially young ones ... any more.
We were just at a garden centre packed with old folks ... like 70 and 80 somethings, and I uttered, “This is why I want to die young. I don’t want to be that old.”
So she asks if that is why I no longer go to doctors, and I reply “No, my doctor choices were getting to diverse to engender any confidence in their ability.”
I’m on the north side of my ‘60s. I’ve had a rich and full life and have no qualms shuffeling off this mortal coil if my maker calls me. I just don’t want my end on Earth to be the product muh diversity.