>>12890413based. A foreigner to a community will never have the same heart in their care as a local would. What can Dr. Xian-Jang-wallawallabingbang offer that Dr. Local-Guy can't do better? Locals will have more innate rapport and colloquial language to get better interviews with patients. The local doc will be more familiar with the common local diseases, and the medicine is applicable racially. Why would you learn medicine in China, learn china statistics, treat and adapt to Chinese cultures, and then come to the USA and expect to be competitive with the natives. The truth is the out of country applicants can't be as widely competitive as they are now compared to local students. Sure some foreign students will exist at the extremes like all normal distrubution produces, but they need every single bit of specialized help that can be better invested in your local population becoming physicians. The schools have to realize that Dr. Chang will be their physician in the future since they refuse to allow locals in the universities. Only when there are no competent doctors left, and 3rd world diseases emerge in 1st world countries, will everyone realize what a mistake it is to encourage intercultural health care.
So, no, I'm not arguing we need to do affirmitive action for locals, they don't need it. We should, however, be violently pushing for them to succeed and not dumping money to train foreigners to speak better, read better, write better, and so on. Nobody wins when you try to appease more than 1 party. Reverse the scenario and put a NA student in a Chineese, African, or Iraqi school of medicine - what benefits would the NA student get? More likely than not, fuck all. We're kneecapping ourselves by taking on this rich family adopts a black baby style persona. I hope more incoming students realize NA is doomed to fail and move elsewhere for med and a career.
