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Article: First do no harm.(affirmative action medical school student Patrick Chavis has medical license suspended for gross negligence)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 13, 1997
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Until recently, Patrick Chaviss claim to fame was that he was admitted to the University of California at Davis Medical School as an affirmative-action student in 1973 the year Allan Bakke was rejected. Because of Chaviss outspoken advocacy of racial preferences, the media sometimes referred to him as "the student admitted in Bakkes place although, strictly speaking, he was one of several possibilities.
Chavis went on to become an obstetrician/gynecologist in Compton, California, a mostly minority suburb of Los Angeles. Chavis also became a much-celebrated symbol of racial preferences. When the New York Times Magazine published Nicholas Lemanns ten-page paean to ...