Well, I know I wasn’t Dr Welby…. Or Dr Ben Carson… but I did try to emulate Dr DeBakey in adult heart surgery, Dr Mattox in trauma surgery, Dr Buckley and Manning in vascular surgery…… and Dr. Mel Smith in pediatric heart surgery and also being all around the best friend residents ever had, besides being board certified in General Surgery, Cardiothoracic surgery, and pediatric surgery. Oh and also a Colonel in the USAF MC at Lackland AFB Tx . Yep - he was black. But we didn’t even notice it. He was one of us, the Wilford Hall Surgery staff and residents that took care of injured Troops from Viet Nam war, our American boy POWs when they were released and sent back for us to fix up some of the delayed injuries their Viet Cong captors had rendered. Never heard one patient or doctor or family member complain Mel was black. Point is, this “wokeness” has gotten out of control.
Read this. It applies.
https://www.city-journal.org/the-corruption-of-medicine
So stay well. Try to avoid hospitals unless you need them. Don’t pay any attention to skin color - we didn’t. But if you wake up on a guerney in the ER and the young doctor hovering over you has not examined you, starts talking fast about your CAT scan findings….. and he/she/it is sweating profusely - it is a sign they are clueless and don’t know what they are doing. Ask for someone with grey hair….male or female, doctor or nurse. Please.
Oh - Mel did start on some grey hair but was taken on to his reward way way too early. Prostate cancer.
So true. Being an Alumni , I infrequently attend the M and M lectures usually held at our hospital of "training". And the last two times I attended it was more of CRT than actual cases So Sad