Commentary: To let such an accusation stand unchallenged does a profound disservice to doctors and their patients, who have difficulty today knowing what’s true and what isn’t.
, “Physician-patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns,”
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS, a prestigious scientific journal. The data appears reliable, although the report lacks medical details; the authors were not physicians.
I am not making any judgment on the merits of the Supreme Court decision. Moreover, I fully support educating and training more Black physicians, which I did throughout my career at what was then Cook County Hospital. Some of those physicians are leaders in their communities today. To return to the topic at hand, a doubling of survival is an incredibly huge difference for any medical situation, in this case an extra death for every 1,000 births. That is a very large number to attribute to any single intervention, let alone physician quality, and there are virtually no single factors that could account for such a large number. It is almost certainly primarily due to things other than the quality of the physicians.
It is important to note the PNAS study was not randomized — that means many variables are not the same in cases with Black and with white physicians. In a randomized study, variables are assumed to be similar in different groups.Read the latest editorials and commentary curated by the Tribune Opinion team.
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