More minority doctors needed to improve health system, panel says
Increasing the number of medical professionals from disadvantaged minority groups could help resolve racial disparities in the American health system, a panel of Illinois doctors and professors agreed Monday. There has been no marked increase in African American doctors over the past century, said Harriet Washington, who authored “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.”
“If we’re waiting for racial equity in medicine,” Washington said, “we’ll be waiting for a long, long time.”
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