> So now if you have to choose between an Asian doctor and an African American one, you'd have to be pretty foolish to pick the African American one. In the 80s

> So now if you have to choose between an Asian doctor and an African American one, you'd have to be pretty foolish to pick the African American one. In the 80s, I would have totally believed the African American doctor must be amazing to make it through. Now we know he was possibly let into medschool with scores that would have gotten an Asian doctor rejected. I don't know if this was necessarily ever true, diversity quotas or not. It's a marketing narrative that "feels" good (which is how they get you) but I've always gotten the impression that minority candidates are more likely to take extreme risks to make a name for themselves. The west has never really valued craftsmanship as much as we value showmanship. It was Ben Carson's "illustrious" career that put me off the idea of blindly choosing the underdog; he and Josef Mengele must have taken the same ethics class. Nobody can say shit about the black surgeon who fucks up high-risk, experimental surgeries-- after all, he had to work so hard to get to where he is. Dr. Roxy too. I was disappointed to learn she wasn't actually a cocaine-addicted clown, but she's had her medical license revoked nonetheless.