Showing posts with label Physicians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Physicians. Show all posts

Sunday, February 07, 2010

The ethnicity distribution of physicians

The table lists the percent of American physicians by ethnic group:


The ratios are the share of physicians in each group compared to their share of the total population. Americans of Scottish descent and especially those of Jewish and Asian Indian are overrepresented among doctors. There are disproportionately low numbers of blacks, Americans of Germans and Irish background, and the sample has no Mexican American doctors.  


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