Differences in racial health outcomes are absolutely concerning and the medical training issues you call out are unacceptable. However, examples like OBGYN div

Differences in racial health outcomes are absolutely concerning and the medical training issues you call out are unacceptable. However, examples like OBGYN diversity might outline a slightly different aspect of race and racial issues in the USA. OBGYN is one of the most diverse specialties and, even with more diversity, it's still going to be unlikely for an African-American woman to end up with an African-American female doctor (assuming emergency intake and ignoring sorting done at the time of physician selection). In the 2022 NRMP Match data[0], OBGYN residency applicants were 86% female and 11% Black/African American(B/AA). Quick and possibly unreliable skimming of recent paper abstracts returned ~62% female and 11% B/AA for the current overall OBGYN pool. 11% of OBGYN is lower than the overall population demographics in the USA but the B/AA population is still only 13%. The answer might be better education and training for all doctors, or it might involve matching patient and doctor demographics for the best patient experience, but we're never going to have enough minority group doctors to make a minority group patient likely to receive care from a minority group doctor in a randomized setting. [0] https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Demographic-data-perspectives-paper_FINAL.pdf https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Demographic-...