Sentences with phrase «treat black patients»
Yet we have a medical system that, due to high costs and doctors who treat black patients differently, presents important advances in medical care — like genetic tests — as something optional for African Americans.
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The patient's hard, black tongue is scarified and treated with a mixture of chile powder, natron, and soot.
They had inevitably treated other black patients, but this time, perhaps persuaded by Trice downplaying the severity so he could return to Ames with his teammates, they did not provide adequate care.
And 64 percent of black patients in the study group were treated at these high - mortality centers compared to only 41 percent of white patients.
The researchers analyzed data on more than 69,000 black and white patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treated at 253 hospitals in three states during 2006 - 07.
The study looked at differences in the characteristics of hospitals where black versus white patients were treated, including whether nursing care needs were unmet «rarely, sometimes, or frequently.»
Earlier results had also found that diuretics were as good or better than other blood pressure - lowering drugs for treating hypertension in patients with metabolic syndrome (a collection of factors that put people at risk of heart disease), especially black patients.