Lost in Translation said: ), or South/South East Asian descent. But are there any users of Chinese/Taiwanese/Japanese/Korean descent?



Actually, many of my pre-med "friends" weren't even from this demographic. Is our market share shrinking ?



Anyway, share your experiences with this whole medicine thing here. It seems that many of the users here are of white, black, Middle Eastern (so... white?), or South/South East Asian descent. But are there any users of Chinese/Taiwanese/Japanese/Korean descent?Actually, many of my pre-med "friends" weren't even from this demographic. Is our market share shrinkingAnyway, share your experiences with this whole medicine thing here. Click to expand...

Yes. Asians in medicine are currently experiencing a slash. Why?Politically correct: the demographic of the state should be represented properly in the proportion of the physician class, or so research claims that patients feel more comfortable with this. "Never mind the encroaching problem that is patient survey based healthcare".Truth: there has always been a disdain for doctors that have terrible listening skills and bedside manner. There has been a push to "humanize" doctors, whether it be making their criteria prereqs to be "more well rounded", etc. Problem is, thanks to Hollywood and the general anti China media, people tend to associate Asians to being robotic and only good test takers with no leadership. This phenomenon is observed plenty of times not only in corporate offices, but in movies and tv shows (an otherwise intelligent or physically adept Asian character gets usurped by protagonist that is not Asian because protagonist has 'leadershipz' and 'emotion' ( and gets the submissive Asian girl, which is a whole other can of worms). I've seen some threads here where some higher ups inadvertently admit that these "robotic type Asians" are part of a factor as to why the mcat has changed. To be more blunt, this applies more to asian men than asian women, because asian women have had relatively more 'accepted' exposure in media (provided they are either 1) hypersexualized (Lucy Liu) or 2) married to a white dude that demonstrates their "assimilation" (Amy Tan) - again, whole other can of worms that I don't want to address here unless I want to be like JK Rowling and write 7 novels). http://www.asamnews.com/2015/03/07/tv-producer-asian-guys-in-my-show-not-gonna-happen/ SDN mobile