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    Posted on February 3rd, 2009

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    Why dont we like doctors?

    Why dont we like doctors?

    According to recent research, blacks are much more likely to distrust medical research than whites. It is believed that this is the primary reason why black children are often misrepresented in research findings, according to Science Daily.
    Excerpt from sciencedaily.com:
    As compared with white parents, African American parents:
    * More often reported distrust of [...]

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    Posted on October 30th, 2008

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    Doctors unconsciously favor white patients

    This is interesting, although not necessarily surprising:
    The LA Times is reporting that researchers have shown that doctors have an unconscious bias in how they view patients, favoring white patients over black patients.
    The data come from a sample of more than 400,000 people who anonymously took a race attitude Implicit Association Test. The test captures subconscious [...]