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Four young scholars met at a conference in 2013, and decided they’d stick together, forming a group to see one another through the stresses and successes of being early career academics. All were Black, and they shared a research interest: counseling and psychology.
One by one, the group’s members reached the milestone that cements any academic career: tenure. Two went up for tenure in 2018, a third last spring. This year was to be Paul C. Harris’s turn. The group thought Harris, an assistant professor in the University of Virginia’s counselor-education program, whose research focuses on Black student-athletes’ college readiness, had as strong a case as any of them.
Why is race more important than other qualifications? The experts at the AMA have the answer:
Fortunately, multiple studies have demonstrated that patients who share racial or gender characteristics with the physicians treating them demonstrate higher rates of both treatment compliance and personal satisfaction. [Emphasis added]
That’s “fortunately” because the study
supports the goal of making America’s doctors less white.
Note that subjective patient satisfaction and reported treatment compliance are the measures of success, rather than objective clinical outcomes, which are harder to quantify quickly and, you know, a white thing [
, Newsweek, July 17, 2020].
It might be comforting to consider that only about 15% of practicing physicians belong to the AMA. And even that figure is inflated by free memberships for medical students, who haven’t yet figured out that Big Woke Med doesn’t really represent their interests. The declining fortunes of the organization are