Abstract
Outraged by the recent events highlighting racial inequities in our country and inspired to make a difference, I have reflected on how we, as health care professionals, can make a difference within our professions. In diabetes management, we must be cognizant of the racial and ethnic disparities in prevalence rates of diabetes: 7.5% of non-Hispanic Whites, 9.2% of Asian Americans, 11.7% of non-Hispanic Blacks, 12.5% of Hispanics, and 14.7% of American Indians/Alaskan Natives (1). For minority populations, having an ethnically/racially concordant health care provider is associated with improved patient satisfaction, patient-clinician communication, and access to care (2). In the Oakland Men’s Health Disparity Project, non-Hispanic Black male patients randomly assigned to a Black doctor were 20% more likely to agree …
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