Do you care if your Doctor looks like you?

[TroglocratsRdumb]

New data from the Urban Institute, a think tank that conducts economic and social research, shows that while nearly three-fourths of White patients have a health-care provider of the same race or who speaks the same language, the same is not true for patients of color.
Only 22.2 percent of Black adults and 29.2 percent of Hispanic and Latino adults surveyed consider their usual health-care providers to share their race or ethnicity, and about a quarter of Hispanic and Latino respondents said their provider is of their same race or ethnicity and speaks to them using their preferred language.
The study used data from the Urban Institute’s nationally representative Health Reform Monitoring Survey, which surveyed 9,067 adults in 2021.

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[TroglocratsRdumb]

New data from the Urban Institute, a think tank that conducts economic and social research, shows that while nearly three-fourths of White patients have a health-care provider of the same race or who speaks the same language, the same is not true for patients of color.
Only 22.2 percent of Black adults and 29.2 percent of Hispanic and Latino adults surveyed consider their usual health-care providers to share their race or ethnicity, and about a quarter of Hispanic and Latino respondents said their provider is of their same race or ethnicity and speaks to them using their preferred language.
The study used data from the Urban Institute’s nationally representative Health Reform Monitoring Survey, which surveyed 9,067 adults in 2021.

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The Washinton Post cultivates Left Wing hate and it is Yellow Journalism.
Why do people like "The Urban Institute" worry about such things?
Most people probably don't have a Doctor who "looks like them"
The only people who worry about such things are racists.
BTW, about 14% of the population is Black and about 19% of the population is Latino, so their survey seems proportional and it is not a real issue.

 

[Penelope]

No, it really doesn't matter, as long as they are intelligent about medicine, I like an english speaking just so that I'll understand them. I have a NP now, but that is only for a family dr. Now specialist come in all nationalities.

 

[Lisa558]

New data from the Urban Institute, a think tank that conducts economic and social research, shows that while nearly three-fourths of White patients have a health-care provider of the same race or who speaks the same language, the same is not true for patients of color.
Only 22.2 percent of Black adults and 29.2 percent of Hispanic and Latino adults surveyed consider their usual health-care providers to share their race or ethnicity, and about a quarter of Hispanic and Latino respondents said their provider is of their same race or ethnicity and speaks to them using their preferred language.
The study used data from the Urban Institute’s nationally representative Health Reform Monitoring Survey, which surveyed 9,067 adults in 2021.

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If whites have a white doctor 75% of the time, that makes sense: the vast majority of doctors, like all Americans, are white.

Where the stats diverge is on the blacks, and black doctors. That 22% of them have a black doctor, when blacks are only 14% of the population and probably less than that of doctors, shows that blacks are deliberately considering race in their selection of a doctor. That‘s racist.

 

[Open Bolt]

I'm a white male. My family doctor (or general practitioner, or whatever the proper term is) is a black woman. I'm perfectly happy with her being my doctor.

 

[Lisa558]

I'm a white male. My family doctor (or general practitioner, or whatever the proper term is) is a black woman. I'm perfectly happy with her being my doctor.

My first ophthalmologist was a black man. Fine doctor, but he retired. Now I have a new one, and he’s Muslim. Also excellent. My regular doctor is a woman from India. And my “lady parts” doctor is a white woman born here.

Come to think of it, I don’t have a white male doctor at all. The odds are against that happening, but ah well…..

 

[rightwinger]

If whites have a white doctor 75% of the time, that makes sense: the vast majority of doctors, like all Americans, are white.

Where the stats diverge is on the blacks, and black doctors. That 22% of them have a black doctor, when blacks are only 14% of the population and probably less than that of doctors, shows that blacks are deliberately considering race in their selection of a doctor. That‘s racist.

I am seeing more and more doctors who are of Asian or Indian heritage.
It is difficult to find a white doctor in many specialties

 

[BlueGin]

I'm a white male. My family doctor (or general practitioner, or whatever the proper term is) is a black woman. I'm perfectly happy with her being my doctor.

Yep. Same here. I’m white…my doctor is a black woman.

 

[Unkotare]

My first ophthalmologist was a black man. Fine doctor, but he retired. Now I have a new one, and he’s Muslim. Also excellent. My regular doctor is a woman from India. And my “lady parts” doctor is a white woman born here.

Come to think of it, I don’t have a white male doctor at all. The odds are against that happening, but ah well…..

"Some of my best friends are..."

 

[MizMolly]

The only thing in common the Hindu doctors I have seen is they have no personality. They don’t smile or have a sense of humor. I don’t pick doctors by race, I look up reviews. I have seen white doctors who dont listen and are just concerned with herding patients in and out like cattle.

 

[BlackSand]

New data from the Urban Institute, a think tank that conducts economic and social research, shows that while nearly three-fourths of White patients have a health-care provider of the same race or who speaks the same language, the same is not true for patients of color.
Only 22.2 percent of Black adults and 29.2 percent of Hispanic and Latino adults surveyed consider their usual health-care providers to share their race or ethnicity, and about a quarter of Hispanic and Latino respondents said their provider is of their same race or ethnicity and speaks to them using their preferred language.
The study used data from the Urban Institute’s nationally representative Health Reform Monitoring Survey, which surveyed 9,067 adults in 2021.

MSN

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The doctors and healthcare professionals are doing a great job of not caring what race their patients are ...
Their patients often have quality professionals attending to them, no matter what the nitwits may think about it.

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[Juicin]

Go with the Asian not because Asians are better doctors in a vacuum (assuming they were trained in the US). They just have higher bars to enter medical school


A black or white doctor might have perfect MCAT scores and be a genius. But it's a lot more likely to find an Asian because the standards are highest for them. Avoid black doctors outside surgeons because the standards are lower.

For surgeons IMO you should go with the person with the best hands and that's about all that matters. Let the other specialists worry about keeping you alive. The guy or gal cutting you open needs to be an arteest. And standardized tests have nothing to do with that.

 

[22lcidw]

The only thing in common the Hindu doctors I have seen is they have no personality. They don’t smile or have a sense of humor. I don’t pick doctors by race, I look up reviews. I have seen white doctors who dont listen and are just concerned with herding patients in and out like cattle.

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