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The New Health Care
Bad Medicine: The Harm That Comes From Racism
Racial bias still affects many aspects of health care.
By Austin Frakt
Published Jan. 13, 2020
Updated July 8, 2020
“Reinforcing the fact of racial bias in health care, a recent study found that care for black patients is better when they see black doctors…. The study findings are large. If all black men received the same increase in preventive services… it would reduce the black-white cardiovascular mortality rate by 19 percent and shrink the total black-white male life expectancy gap by 8 percent…”