A 2021 UCLA study found the United States’ population of Black physicians to be 5.4%. Since 1940, the percentage of The post Virginia schools addressing racial gaps in health sciences appeared first on TheGrio.
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The ratio of Black doctors to Black patients in Virginia is about one to 1,000.
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