Physician bias might keep life-saving transplants from black and Hispanic patients

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 10:42 in Health & Medicine

Physician bias might be the reason why African Americans are not receiving kidney/pancreas transplants at the same rate as similar patients in other racial groups. Dr Keith Melancon, director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at Georgetown University Hospital and associate professor of surgery at Georgetown University Medical Centre, and colleagues explore this phenomenon in the November issue of the American Journal of Transplantation...

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