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Do you have a preference? ***** Patients May Be More Satisfied with Same-Race Docs Thu Oct 31, 1:51 PM ET By Charnicia E. Huggins NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most patients seem to prefer doctors of their same race or ethnicity, and those that do have same-race physicians report greater satisfaction with their care, new study findings show. 'The take-home message is not that patients should only be seeing doctors of the same racial/ethnic group,' Dr. Thomas A. LaVeist of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland told Reuters Health. Instead, he said, it should be that 'when patients have a choice, patients are more satisfied and more likely to choose physicians of the same racial/ethnic group. 'The key is choice,' he said. The findings are based on an analysis of data from 2,720 black, white, Hispanic and Asian Americans who were involved in the 1994 Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey.
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