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Very interesting
What a very interesting point about how most teaching hospitals are in cities, and therefore see a lot of members of the urban poor, who are likely to be black. I don't know much about training to be a doctor, but I assume the school part doesn't do much to dispel misty-eyed idealism... and then it's a cold, hard fall into the real world of hospital and patient politics as soon as you start your residency.
It would be interesting to compare the racial attitudes of doctors who trained in areas with a high percentage of poor blacks, versus doctors who trained in areas with high percentages of poor whites.