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As for black female doctors, could it be the same reason that women make less than men across the board?  Because they take more time off for their families?  Wonder if this is changing for younger women?[/quote]

But why would black female doctors make *much* less than white female doctors?[/quote]

I would guess that black women MDs are more likely than white women MDs to be in primary care fields rather than lucrative specialty areas and more likely to be in practices with higher proportions of Medicare and Medicaid patients. To what extent that is their choice versus how much they are steered in those areas is a good question.  One of the big problems in health care is that the top medical students know that the big money is providing specialty care for rich people. Rural areas, poor urban areas, and community hospitals rely on minority and foreign-trained docs because the top white med school graduates run away from those areas. [/quote]

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