I’m willing to give the tow truck driver the benefit of the doubt that the USPS truck has an actual failure preventing the service worker from driving it. This would be BRAZENLY BOLD AND DESPERATE.

Illness has a way of obliterating social customs. Sick people often reveal what they’re really thinking.

As a white male cis-gendered and straight physician, I’ve seen this countless times. I’ll never forget the first time I witnessed this. I was a medical student rounding on a patient in the cancer clinic. To my right was the Black attending physician. The woman addressed every question to me, the white male medical student. In short order I told her I was a student physician, and that the most senior person was the Black man to my left. Still, she persisted, as if she somehow could not wrap her head around the concept that the Black guy knew more than I did.

After this encounter I talked with the attending physician, who possessed a good-humored if resigned attitude to the situation. He then told me he’d often been asked by a patient for a bedpan, or to take out the trash and to send in the doctor. The guy was a graduate of Yale medical school, the product of the best residency and fellowship programs in the world. And yet to this woman, he was just a Black man.

I think encouraging Black applicants to apply for medical school and having some form of affirmative action programs to further encourage matriculation is a good thing. These doctors obviously bring an important perspective and there really are not enough of them.

In order to make things “truly fair”, lets fix the public school system so that majority Black schools aren’t chronically underfunded and let’s subsidize MCAT prep courses to set Black students up for success.

If Black medical school matriculants with lower statistics can succeed in medical school and become great doctors, perhaps its a sign that these admission metrics are not actually predictive of a person’s ability to succeed in medicine.

Instead of using these statistics to de-legitimatize the qualifications of black medical school graduates, perhaps we should be considering how the use of these metrics serves to reinforce the status quo

I always thought that since women and people with more skin pigmentation have more difficulty getting to where they are, that by average they must be better at their job.

So, when you are a patient and you are assigned a Black woman doctor, you most probably get a better doctor then the other patients.