Exactly. "Women are shorter than men on average," but that doesn't make a 7'2" woman any shorter in absolute terms.
What do I know about medicine? If my life depended on picking a tall person hidden behind a screen, would I choose a woman or a man?
This is what's stupid about so-called "affirmative action". They've set the situation up such that it's rational to make sure your doctor is white or east Asian.