Only 5.7% of US doctors are Black, and experts warn the shortage harms public health
One reason why the percentage of US doctors who are Black remains far below that of the US population that is Black can be traced to how Black people have been “historically excluded from medicine” and the “institutional and systemic racism in our society,”
By Jacqueline Howard February 21, 2023
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