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Minority Doctors In Short Supply In State

Only 10 percent of doctors in California are Latino or African American,

By LIFS May 10, 2008 at 11:59 AM
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California has a disproportionate number of Asian and white doctors and a paucity of African American and Latino physicians.

 
According to a study by the University of California, San Francisco, 61% of California's 62,000 physicians are white and 26% Asian, against their proportion in the state population of 48% and 11% respectively. By contrast, only 10 percent of doctors in California are Latino or African American, compared to 40% of their share in the state's population. 

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