Prejudice Persists Against Black And Ethnic Minority Doctors

Menon’s article reminded me of my late father’s experiences as an ear, nose, and throat registrar in the 1970s and as an inner city general practitioner in the ’80s.1 The “local candidate” trope was so frequently used as justification for not appointing black and minority ethnic (BME) clinicians that it ceased being a euphemism. Support for foreign doctors from the establishment was …