The problem was: how did the black patient get into the hospital?
It documented the neglect of black patients in state mental hospitals.
A new study offers still more evidence that when it comes to health care, black and white patients do not always get equal treatment.
"In those days, many black patients did not want to come to a black physician," she says.
He says his black patients and students are similarly beset.
So I start all black patients with a lower dose, then take it from there.
Like earlier studies, the report found that the black patients had a harder time coping with pain than the white ones.
Why does it take longer for doctors to put black patients on the kidney transplant list?
Moreover, although many black patients said they would like to be treated by asthma specialists, only 28 percent were.
The study indicated that black patients are less likely than white or Hispanic people to take drugs in any combinations.