Reducing inequality in health may depend on increasing diversity among doctors, but after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, concerns have arisen that a pathway into medicine may become much harder for students of color. Black Americans represent 13% of the United States population, yet just 6% of physicians in the nation are Black.
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