This paper reports the results of a survey of 200 households in Boston's Chinatown. The dependent variable, types of medical care, was divided into four user patterns: (1) Chinese medicine only; (2) predominantly Western medicine; (3) predominantly Chinese medicine; and (4) equal use of Western and Chinese medicine. Predictor variables included demographic variables, beliefs about medical practices, and ethnic solidarity. Multiple discriminate analysis was used as the main technique of analysis.The findings suggest that a significant diversity of user patterns exists within the Chinese-American community studied. This finding casts doubt on those studies which treat ethnic groups as uniform structures. More interestingly, predictor variables were discovered which account for the type of care used, either Chinese medicine, Western medicine, or combinations. Finally, the predictor variables for male respondents were not the predictors for females. Ethnic solidarity, for example, was an important predictor f...