I guess you can only be cared for by members of your own race
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Surgeon General Regina Benjamin said Thursday that the nation must reverse the downward trend of minorities attending medical, dental and nursing schools.
"Unless the current trend is reversed, our country will see a growing ethnic and racial disconnect between those who receive care and those who provide that care," Benjamin said during a conference on health disparities in downtown Atlanta.
The 53-year-old graduate of the Morehouse School of Medicine said the recent downward trend in minority admissions follows years of gains in these areas. She cited a study that said minorities make up only 6 percent of U.S. physicians, and she lamented that the percentage was the same in 1910.
"There's something wrong with that," she told an audience of 500 health professionals, educators and advocates at the Hyatt Regency.
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