Dr Anthony Garcia read at the 5th-grade level and spelled scissors as “sizzors”. Yet he not only was accepted but graduated from a medical school. This was in early 2000s, and you can only imagine how much stronger the push to graduate illiterate people for racial reasons has become since then.
You can graduate a donkey if you set your mind to it but you won’t be able to get the donkey to practice medicine. Dr Anthony Garcia went from one residency to another, shocking other doctors and patients with his ignorance of the medical profession and freaking out whenever his failures became obvious. It’s impossible to say if Garcia had been a violent psychopath before he ventured into medicine but, whatever his mental state had been before med school, it was not improved by the daily realization that he was too stupid to do the work he was hired to do.
If we treated intelligence like any other physical attribute (which it is), Garcia could have simply told his striving immigrant father that he didn’t have the physical capacity to be a doctor. The dad would have left Garcia in peace to pursue a living that his son could have made successfully. But we convinced ourselves that everybody on the planet is completely equal in terms of brain power and are trying to massage reality into this strange fantasy. Garcia explained his intellectual difficulties often and at length to the authorities at his medical school but they didn’t do anything to help. It’s not OK to say the words “cognitive limitations” or “IQ” because what are you, Hitler? Plus, the dad really wanted to have a doctor son, so Garcia was dragged towards the finish line of medical school both by his parents and his professors.
After being kicked out of several residencies, Garcia went on a revenge murder spree against the doctors who saw through his act and got him fired for incompetence. He murdered four people, including a 12-year-old son of one of the doctors who tried to help him. When Garcia was apprehended, he was making plans for additional murders. He fantasized about torturing people and had a whole arsenal of weapons and torture devices on him when the police finally caught him, 5 years after the first murders.
You are guilty of disparate impact and open to prosecution under the Civil Rights Act irrespective of whether you had an intention to discriminate on racial grounds. The only factor that is taken into account is whether your actions created disparate results for different racial groups.
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Yeah, that case was nuts. Freaked my mom out since my dad had been head of a residency program and was the one who had to let residents go when their behavior was such that they couldn’t continue – and the folks who have to be let go during their second+ year of residency aren’t the calm, stable, sane ones. And Garcia waited years for his revenge.
They recently went to pass/fail for boards, so that residency programs can’t tell who the top students are anymore, no matter what country they’re from. It even made the foreign residents mad since they had *competed* to do well and make it into US programs, but then lost the advantage they had from intelligence and hard work – all so that elite residency programs couldn’t be elite anymore by refusing the “C=MD” types.
Much of the shortage is because the med school admissions have to be at least 50% female whether they are the top students or not and, as noted by other commenters, those also aren’t the people who are fine working crazy hours once they are pregnant/nursing. So they cut way back on hours, or leave the profession and the physician shortage gets worse – but med schools won’t fix the problem by just keeping med school to the top test scores (plus an interview to weed out the crazies).
I read “The Best Minds” by Jonathan Rosen, about his brilliant friend who ended up killing a young woman during a schizophrenic episode and Rosen observed that the soul used to be the measure of human worth, but, during the Enlightenment, the mind became the measure. When you base your worth on your brain and that fails you, what path is there that doesn’t sound like the booby prize?
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Unless the Civil Rights Act and the 1964 Immigration Act are repealed there is no future for America as a civilization AND a country, except for the dogs.
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Yes. The Civil Rights Act needs to go. Whatever injustices it was trying to repair in 1965 are long in the past. There’s no need for it. A different era calls for a different set of solutions to different problems. Time to move on.
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If only there were a way for DEI-supporting people to receive treatment only from DEI-doctors.
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Reducing everything to race is a huge oversimplification since you also have to consider who the specific individuals are.
People say Musk is a product of white privilege because his daddy owned an emerald mine and benefited from the apartheid.
SA has some of the most extreme mining conditions in the world, with mining depth reaching 2 miles. This attracted the world’s best mining engineering talent, which Musk has obviously inherited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TauTona_Mine
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I’m definitely not suggesting rejecting people based on median group IQs. Only individually administered IQ testing should be used.
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“SA has some of the most extreme”
weird accents? I just watched Tali’s J’burg Diary which was very funny and very on point about female status jockeying, but the accents (especially Tali’s) were so weird. Are the closed-mouth or clenched vowels and drawn out finals a real thing?
And when she was talking about Parktown prawns I kept hearing “popcorn prawns”…..
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I’m pretty sure it is real. It seems to be referencing a specific Jewish subculture.
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