US medical schools have gone DEI-crazy with deadly results

Racism plagues American health care — reverse racism.The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division just brought another case against a top medical school for blatant discrimination against white and Asian applicants: Blacks applying to the University of California at San Francisco’s med school get admitted at almost 13 times the rate of similarly qualified white applicants. Black and Hispanic students the school admitted from 2023 to ’25 averaged lower test scores and undergraduate grades than the average white and Asian applicant the school rejected.Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s letter blasting UCSF follows similar ones to UCLA, UCSD and Yale; virtually every other US med school is likely as bad, but she’s building the evidence before she strikes.The University of Pennsylvania offers a path for students at eight other colleges to enter medical school without taking the MCAT at all — and five of the eight are historically black colleges.At the University of Texas-Southwestern, per data from medical-accountability watchdog Do No Harm, “black applicants had 21 times the odds of acceptance compared to white applicants with similar academic credentials,” to choose another.  Sadly, this racism isn’t remotely new: These admission disparities started back in the late 1960s.What’s gotten markedly worse is how the schools have eviscerated their standards for graduation, as well as their curricula.Richard Bosshardt, a surgeon and Do No Harm senior fellow, notes that “many candidates for certification” now take “seven hours to complete an operation that should take at most four” and cites “a rise in patients’ post-operative complications” driven significantly by schools that fear “to correct, hold back, or drop underperforming minority trainees.”Med schools have been reducing required classes in actual medicine and adding ones in “social justice.”The rot is so deep that school leaders are defying the Supreme Court�...