American doctors who treat black patients may be less well trained than those caring for whites and are more likely to say they can't provide all their patients with high-quality care, according to a study.
The researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York and the Centre for Studying Health System Change, a Washington-based policy research group, examined data from 150,391 routine doctor visits by black and white Medicare patients to 4,365 primary care doctors, who had participated in a telephone survey during 2000 and 2001.
The researchers found that 25 per cent of physicians handled 80