1.   As a result, my black patients with hepatitis C must be given a considerably less reassuring prognosis than my white patients.

2.   Black patients were less likely to receive medical treatments, in part, because they are more often uninsured, The Plain Dealer found.

3.   But because so few black patients had the procedure, their overall survival worked out to be substantially below that of white patients.

4.   But for black patients and female patients does it really matter whether the bias is overt prejudice or subconscious perceptions?

5.   But it did not address whether black patients were more disabled than whites or whether some whites might have received the catheterization procedure inappropriately.

6.   But she adds that black patients have told her they have done well with white therapists who have a spiritual, very religious background.

7.   But the researchers could not say if doctors were less likely to recommend surgery to black patients, or if black patients themselves were more likely to refuse surgery.

8.   Claudia, slightly younger, is a doctor who provides her services at a clinic, free of charge, to black patients who cannot afford to pay.

9.   Doctors also hope that Vanlev could help black patients, who do not respond as well as white patients to blood pressure drugs now on the market.

10.   He and his co-authors said it was imperative that doctors acted to make sure that black patients got the lung surgery they needed.