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Doctors less likely to recommend colorectal screening to racial minorities
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Doctors less likely to recommend colorectal screening to racial minorities
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​Colorectal cancer strikes – and kills – African-Americans at rates higher than any other racial group in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Yet, 25 percent of older African-Americans who had gone without a timely colorectal cancer screening said doctors failed during a regular checkup to recommend it compared to 17 percent of older whites, according to a new study in the Journal of Gastroenterology.

May 28, 2015
Doctors less likely to recommend colorectal screening to racial minorities
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Doctors less likely to recommend colorectal screening to racial minorities
Communications Team

​Colorectal cancer strikes – and kills – African-Americans at rates higher than any other racial group in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Yet, 25 percent of older African-Americans who had gone without a timely colorectal cancer screening said doctors failed during a regular checkup to recommend it compared to 17 percent of older whites, according to a new study in the Journal of Gastroenterology.

May 28, 2015
Not enough doctors for California's sick kids
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Not enough doctors for California's sick kids
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​California faces a shortage of medical specialists for the state's estimated 1 million children with serious medical conditions. According to a new Center policy note and related April 25 webinar, although pediatric subspecialists who care for the sickest children require additional training, they are generally paid less than physicians who care for adults. 
April 22, 2013
Not enough doctors for California's sick kids
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Not enough doctors for California's sick kids
Communications Team
​California faces a shortage of medical specialists for the state's estimated 1 million children with serious medical conditions. According to a new Center policy note and related April 25 webinar, although pediatric subspecialists who care for the sickest children require additional training, they are generally paid less than physicians who care for adults. 
April 22, 2013
Lost in translation: HMO enrollees with poor health have hardest time communicating with doctors
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Lost in translation: HMO enrollees with poor health have hardest time communicating with doctors
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In the nation's most diverse state, some of the sickest Californians often have the hardest time communicating with their doctors. So say the authors of a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that found that residents with limited English skills who reported the poorest health and were enrolled in commercial HMO plans were more likely to have difficulty understanding their doctors, placing this already vulnerable population at even greater risk.
February 28, 2013
Lost in translation: HMO enrollees with poor health have hardest time communicating with doctors
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Lost in translation: HMO enrollees with poor health have hardest time communicating with doctors
Communications Team
In the nation's most diverse state, some of the sickest Californians often have the hardest time communicating with their doctors. So say the authors of a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that found that residents with limited English skills who reported the poorest health and were enrolled in commercial HMO plans were more likely to have difficulty understanding their doctors, placing this already vulnerable population at even greater risk.
February 28, 2013