Word: betancourt
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...Joseph Betancourt, in a speech called “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care” said both doctors and patients contribute to the disparities in care...
...Betancourt quoted studies showing that 100 more African-Americans per 100,000 die from heart disease and cancer than do whites, and that doctors were more likely to recommend cardiac catheterization testing for white men than black women even when their symptoms were identical...
...Betancourt said that he believes that communication between doctors and patients is one of the main barriers...