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Volume 351:2126-2127 November 11, 2004 Number 20
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Primary Care Physicians Who Treat Blacks and Whites

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To the Editor: Bach et al. (Aug. 5 issue)1 present disturbing evidence on disparities in the training of physicians who treat black patients and those who treat white patients and in access to high-quality care by black patients and white patients. The reason these differences occur is important, because it bears on how best to rectify an unacceptable situation.

One possibility is that patients with higher incomes see better-trained physicians and have better access to high-quality care than do patients with lower incomes, but that when whites and blacks have similar incomes, black patients are not disadvantaged. This finding would . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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