It could be worse: Mr. Bean could be your surgeon.
Would you sacrifice some of the quality of your medical care, to make sure it was being provided by “minorities”?
JPS Health in Tarrant County, Texas, runs the county’s hospital system and openly favors “minorities” providing everything from medical equipment to cancer screening (https://freebeacon.com/policy/minority-contracting-comes-to-medicine/)–welcome, “minority contracting”!
JPS uses a 100-point scale to evaluate bids to provide hospitals with goods and services. In the scale they use, “diversity and inclusion” is worth 15 points. That puts it very high on JPS’ list of priorities.
Other than increasing overall costs and increasing the risk to patients, it’s a humdinger of an idea. It’s become common in several other industries and can be found in several other states. Somehow Tarrant County wound up in the news. But other hospital systems have done the same.
So never mind having the best equipment, the best procedures, or the best personnel. “Diversity” carves out a chunk from “best.”
Don’t get sick. Your hospital might want to use you to score Diversity points.