Racial concordance study ‘scientifically unsound,’ Do No Harm argues
A prominent study purporting to prove that black patients benefit from black doctors is unsupported by its own findings, because the data show black patients improved even when they didn’t see black doctors, according to an anti-DEI medical advocacy group.
The study was co-authored by one of the architects of Obamacare, MIT’s Jonathan Gruber, and contends to support the racial concordance theory that patients who receive medical care from physicians of the same race have better outcomes.
This theory is often cited in legal, political, and policy decisions to maintain racial preferences in medical education and hiring.
However, Do No Harm stated in its new report challenging the study — by citing its own data — that “the benefit for black patients in medical facilities that also have more black doctors is estimated to be even larger than for the black patients who see doctors of all races.”