DMEMEDS shared post via NYT: Hard Cases: When Doctors Treat Patients Like Themselves

While patients may prefer doctors like them -- in terms of race, gender or weight -- it is unclear whether such pairings improve health outcomes. [Category: Race and Ethnicity, Doctors, Hard Cases, medicine and health, Featured] http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/3a996c8c/sc/14/l/0Lwell0Bblogs0Bnytimes0N0C20A140C0A50C190Cwhen0Edoctors0Etreat0Epatients0Elike0Ethemselves0C0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm

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