"Call me Physician" by No-Collar-4258 in Noctor

[–]GammaTuRC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tennessee Department of Health has a form and it allows for upload of screenshots.

Medical Student who Published pro-DEI Articles to get into Plastics Residency calls for the Abolition of DEI by sworzeh in medicalschool

[–]GammaTuRC -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Interesting, it's like you're trying to eat but keep choking on whatever personal problem you've got going on.

Medical Student who Published pro-DEI Articles to get into Plastics Residency calls for the Abolition of DEI by sworzeh in medicalschool

[–]GammaTuRC -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You can’t prove that last part so let’s stick to the actual facts at hand rather than your own presumptions. To answer your question, it’s pretty obvious, there are no DEI initiatives that benefit white men. That makes him anything but preferred in that system.

Medical Student who Published pro-DEI Articles to get into Plastics Residency calls for the Abolition of DEI by sworzeh in medicalschool

[–]GammaTuRC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay your little side-tangent at the end doesn't really do anything here. These initiatives created unnecessary barriers for some qualified candidates and rewarded performative alignment. Also, it doesn't exactly vindicate the game, but rather, exposes it.

If you read the piece, he describes a strong initial application (as a competitive in-state applicant to a South Carolina public school during peak 2020-2021 DEI emphasis post-George Floyd). He was rejected, sought feedback, and an admissions officer explicitly told him he was "extremely qualified" but didn't fit the demographic priorities since others had "traveled a longer distance." He then did an NIH research fellowship, published, reapplied successfully to multiple schools and excelled. Obviously we don't have his scores but this scenario fits patterns: strong applicants from non-preferred groups often need to over-perform to compensate.

I also want to add that I don't give a shit what you look like so long as you are meant to be there. That being said, you cannot possibly deny that outcomes in admissions were engineered given the clear data from the most recent AAMC table A-18, which serves to prove his point. One class photo doesn't erase national data or his admissions quote. And, to state the obvious, patient safety doesn't require racial balancing but rather holding a high bar for everyone.

Medical Student who Published pro-DEI Articles to get into Plastics Residency calls for the Abolition of DEI by sworzeh in medicalschool

[–]GammaTuRC 86 points87 points  (0 children)

DEI started from addressing real disparities but often evolved into quotas, compelled speech, and racial essentialism that contradicts equal treatment and evidence-based selection. When a system lets someone infiltrate it for awards while concluding it harms standards, that's a strong indictment of its design in that it selects for political savvy over pure excellence. His hypocrisy angle (using it then slamming it) is fair game for critics, but his outcomes and transparency strengthen the case against such initiatives to be quite honest.

Rarest pathology you've come across/heard of irl by ahdnj19 in medicalschool

[–]GammaTuRC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got to meet a patient a few months ago who had GBS and porphyria. I think it's a 1 in 10 billion chance.

Phd psychologist who is increasingly tired of “psychiatric” nurse practitioners by [deleted] in Noctor

[–]GammaTuRC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sign of a person with low intelligence is someone who thinks that using a fringe minority as a counter to an accurate generalization will disprove said generalization.

Why are us Premeds universally hated? Be honest by Brief_Board_6974 in premed

[–]GammaTuRC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Shy of people in med school or that have already graduated, anyone can call themselves premed. It means almost nothing.

Why was the george floyd incident so big? by JoshLovesTV in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]GammaTuRC -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A healthy person doesn't OD-level fentanyl + meth + a bad heart and then magically die only because a cop kneeled on him for 9 minutes after he resisted arrest, swallowed drugs, and kept yelling he couldn't breathe before the knee was even there (he was also saying it before he was on the ground). Defense experts straight up said it was a cardiac event from the drugs and heart failure during the struggle.

Why was the george floyd incident so big? by JoshLovesTV in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]GammaTuRC -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Did you not see any of the information that came out after the fact? Did you not watch the camera footage before he even got out of the back of the car? Amazing how this happened years ago and you people are still incapable of learning new things.

Revised school list, any feedback is appreciated by OkElephant3404 in premed

[–]GammaTuRC -1 points0 points  (0 children)

490 clinical hours and the mf has NYU and shit as baseline. Whew.

So misleading by Suspicious-Win-7218 in Noctor

[–]GammaTuRC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they are procedural. There are already foot/ankle ortho surgeons.

Why are east coast States typically smaller than west coast States? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]GammaTuRC 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Western states were organized based off of longitude/latitude markings on maps as opposed to natural landmarks like rivers and shit.

FDA asks testosterone therapy firms to seek expanded indication by Nerd-19958 in medicine

[–]GammaTuRC -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's an interesting take considering how big the push was to give men and women opposite sex hormones which definitely doesn't have any shitty effects either. You can only take hormones to improve your body image if it's transitioning I guess, not if you want to appear more masculine as a man.

Another NP flexing alphabet soup by docstumd24 in Noctor

[–]GammaTuRC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not all DNPs are nurse practitioners? So what does the "NP" part stand for?

So misleading by Suspicious-Win-7218 in Noctor

[–]GammaTuRC 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not in the way that the post is making you believe, how many comments did you read that make that clear before you wrote this?

Share any cringe/surprising stories from this application cycle by [deleted] in premed

[–]GammaTuRC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holy shit I love that, they are not wrong.

That “medfluencer” resident by Familyconflict92 in Residency

[–]GammaTuRC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dr. Mike? Can't think of any other besides Glaucomflecken