Discussion: Northam's Med School Banned Yearbooks In 2013 Due To Racist Photos

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Maybe they need to look into the secret sombrero society on campus, too?

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So there is a racist culture at this med school. Did Northam ever try to do anything about it?

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Spanked? No. Heads need to roll after an outside investigation.

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There’s an exceptionally well done, made-for-TV movie about one egregious example of that – the Vivien Thomas story. I really can’t recommend it highly enough. It’s called Something the Lord Made, starring Mos Def and Alan Rickman (yes, that Mos Def and that Alan Rickman). If you haven’t yet, watch it during Black History month. Invite friends. You won’t regret it.

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but this is post-grad: adults, people who are going to soon take the Hippocratic oath, who should be able to police themselves. They shouldn’t have needed minders!

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So, you ban something because of something that happened. But you don’t go back in time to see how bad it was?

That’s one way to do it. You know, if you’re completely fucking incompetent.

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Yearbooks at a professional school just seems odd to me. Most of us probably had high school yearbooks and they were kind of significant. But past high school? I don’t think my university (UCSD) did and know that my graduate school didn’t,

Seems like the media is treating this yearbook like it was from high school. “Who doesn’t look at their yearbook?” Yes, it would seem odd that you never saw your high school yearbook, but what kind of dork pays attention to a medical school yearbook.

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Ah, doctors… our best and brightest.

The ones we always stop our conversations for when they interrupt with, “I’m a doctor and…”

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Excellent Film! It’s an HBO production. Anyone with HBO GO can watch it. It’s probably also available at your local library.

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Good tip! I watched on Vimeo, then later I added it to my Amazon movie collection.

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Honestly, though, I can see why it wasn’t a big deal before.

Remember, the Internet caught most of the world pretty off guard. Nobody could have predicted (tm, Condi Rice) that you could character assassinate (character expose?) someone from across the world 35 years after a picture was taken.

Copies of those yearbooks existed…what, in the hands of the attendees, maybe professors (if they gave a shit, and based on most of my experience with college professors, I’m assuming not), and a copy in the school library. How could that ever come back and bite you?

Just another unanticipated change caused by the Internet.

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That’s it media. Let’s not focus on health care.

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Yep, the easiest way to look better in your clothes is to stop weighing yourself and buy bigger clothes.

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And your point is? Have you?

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Don’t forget to wear a super long tie! :laughing:

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Damn it seems even the schools yearbook fell victims to those uppity ‘progressive negros’ purity test. /s

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I’ve worked with many Doctors and many Lawyers.

Holy shit, why they are considered to be best and brightest I’ll never know. Maybe it’s because, being able to afford med school or law school means that you’re already in the upper classes?

“Familiarity breeds contempt” as the old saying goes.

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Man, I wonder what theme Northam’s picture was celebrating?

“Bygone days”, “Better Times”, or “When America Was Great”?

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One would think that at this stage in life and pursuing a career in medicine people might be a little above all of this racist crap. It’s not very comforting to think a percentage of the elite are in the “racism is oh so funny category”. Maybe when they apply to medical school there should be a box that asks are you a racist, yes or no.

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