Hoover Eddie L
Department of Surgery, Buffalo VAMC, 3495 Bailey Ave., Buffalo, NY 14215, USA.
J Natl Med Assoc. 2006 Sep;98(9):1432-4.
I invited Kathryn L. Moseley, MD to write the editorial appearing on the pages before this one as to whether she thought that the original Flexner Report was unduly harsh on the existing black medical schools. I invited her to choose whether she wanted to write the "pro" or "con" editorial, and that I would write the opposite piece for the sake of a presentation-although I might not necessarily believe in the position on which I was to write. She elected to write the "yes, it was harmful" piece, and I had to assume the editor's burden. In fact, as I began doing my internal soul searching for answers, I began to believe that the original Flexner Report actually helped preserve two black schools--Howard and Meharry--both of which might well have closed along with the other five schools scattered across the southeast, absent Flexner's direct and tangential support.
我邀请了医学博士凯瑟琳·L·莫斯利撰写在本文之前那一页的社论，探讨她是否认为最初的《弗莱克斯纳报告》对当时现存的黑人医学院过于苛刻。我让她自行选择撰写支持还是反对的社论，而我会撰写相反的文章以形成一种观点呈现——尽管我不一定认同我要写的立场。她选择撰写“是的，它是有害的”这篇文章，于是我不得不承担起编辑的责任。事实上，当我开始在内心深处探寻答案时，我开始相信最初的《弗莱克斯纳报告》实际上帮助保留了两所黑人学校——霍华德大学和梅哈里医学院——如果没有弗莱克斯纳的直接和间接支持，这两所学校很可能会同分布在东南部的其他五所学校一样关闭。
