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...curious to know why 38% of nurses say they would not want to be hospitalized in their own hospitals, yet they continue to endanger their professional reputations by affiliating themselves with institutions they feel give substandard care. I would insist on being hospitalized where quality care is provided-the hospital where I work...
Most officials at the school blame the lag on a controversy last spring over the claims of Bernard D. Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology, that medical schools admit and graduate minority students with substandard qualifications...
...assertions made last spring by Dr. Bernard D. Davis '32, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology, that academic standards in medical schools have fallen in recent years because of the rise in the number of minority students admitted "with substandard academic qualifications" had the immediate ill-effect of cheapening blacks' hard won gains. Davis made it seem as if black students were receiving diplomas out of charity. Some patients became suspicious of black doctors and asked whites to treat them...
...considerable attention last spring when he suggested in a New England Journal of Medicine editorial that the Medical School acted irresponsibly in graduating a minority student who failed part I of the national medical board five times. In particular Davis criticized the "nationwide increase in admission of students with substandard academic qualifications...
...Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology. First in a letter to a prestigious medical journal and later in comments to the press, Davis has asserted that academic standards in medical schools have fallen in recent years because of the rise in the number of minority students admitted with "substandard academic qualifications." Whether through Davis's naivete or reporters' searching for the simplified or sensational (The Crimson ran this headline across the top of the front page: "Professor Assails Blacks' Performance"), Davis's message came out as a challenge of the competency of all minority students...