Little-known medical trivia.

Film, television, radio, and other media fail to accurately portray the diversity among health care professionals and the patients they treat.

A photograph from the first AMA House of Delegates meeting in 1901 highlights the issues of physician demographics and whether the profession has adequately addressed diversity in the profession.

A U.S. Peace Corps physician relates his experiences in Africa to diversity in the medical profession and in medical school admissions.

An African American physician recounts the life experiences that led to her career choice and discusses the potential impact of a caregiver's race or ethnicity on patient-physician communication.

The discussion of diversity in medical care should be expanded to include religious affiliation as a category of difference.

Diversity. A major buzz word here at the turn of the century.

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