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Sullivan Commission on Diversity in Healthcare

Diversity in U.S. healthcare professions is separate, unequal, commission says

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, October 22nd, 2004

A lack of diversity among healthcare professionals is placing the health of at least one-third of the nation at risk.

This fact was among findings announced by the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce in its report, "Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions."

"Access to health professions remains largely separate and unequal," said commission chair Louis W. Sullivan, MD. "We know that minority physicians, dentists and nurses are more likely to serve minority and medically underserved populations, yet there is a severe shortage of minorities in the health professions. Without much more diversity in the health...

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