Infant mortality and the race of the doctor
2020-08-20 16:56:28.541211+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
PNAS: Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns
Findings suggest that when Black newborns are cared for by Black physicians, the mortality penalty they suffer, as compared with White infants, is halved.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913405117
Via The Cut, which gets the headline totally wrong, I think, because the "3 times" is general mortality without considering the race of the attending physician: Black Newborns Are 3 Times More Likely to Die When Treated by White Doctors, by way of Sensible Endowment.