There is little more grating than a study demonstrating that medical care is particularly suboptimal in minority populations. Although many are comfortable acknowledging that the poor receive worse healthcare, few feel that racial differences in care quality are acceptable when access to care and socioeconomic issues are held constant. Of course, the explanations for disparities may not be nefarious but due to underlying differences in risk factors, disease expression, or patient preferences, and clinicians may not be responsible.
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