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Re:In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race... by al_mandi on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:17PM (#32322369)
Law of large numbers. Plus, getting into medical school is not sufficient. A surgeon cannot fake his track record and experience after residency and working.
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Re:In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race... by cudgy on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @03:19AM (#32328610)
Cannot fake? How about Dr Death and the doctors guild that protected him for years?

https://allthatsinteresting.com/dr-death-christopher-duntsch

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Re:In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race... by TameAntelope on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @03:26PM (#32323163)
> A surgeon cannot fake his track record and experience after residency and working.

Fake? No. Fudge? Yes, easily. Besides, you can be competent and still substantially worse than a gifted surgeon would have been had they been given an actual "equal" opportunity like the comment I replied to claimed to care about.

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