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New York City's medical care is a mostly segregated, two-class system -- with poor and uninsured minority patients crammed into municipal hospitals, and most everyone else treated in private
Hospital 'apartheid' - NYPOST.com January 25-2010
Sickening city divide in rich & poor care.
New York City's medical care is a mostly segregated, two-class
system -- with poor and uninsured minority patients crammed into
municipal hospitals, and most everyone else treated in private
institutions just blocks away, according to explosive new data obtained
by The Post. 'It is a two-tiered system that leads to medical
apartheid,' said Nisha Argawall of the New York Lawyers for the Public
Interest.
Surgery racial shocker
Minority New Yorkers are 60 percent likelier to die after major
surgery than are whites -- and an alarming 20 percent likelier to die
even after simple hip-replacement or other more common procedures,
researchers found. The study of residents from all five
boroughs and Nassau and Westchester counties discovered that fewer
blacks are treated at 'high-volume' hospitals, where doctors perform
more cancer-related, cardiovascular and orthopedic surgeries.
Blacks are less likely to use such facilities for 16 of 17 surgical
procedures and Hispanics for 15 of the 17, the researchers write in the
medical journal Inquiry. context: middle
The largest disparity involves cancer and heart patients, with 20
percent fewer blacks treated in the higher-volume hospitals, the study
claims.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/surgery_racial_shocker_pphNBUKaQjCpnhqjtWhgyL
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hosp_apartheid_B1FRIROwt2FzbtIWAnHa9I
Sickening city divide in rich & poor care.
New York City's medical care is a mostly segregated, two-class
system -- with poor and uninsured minority patients crammed into
municipal hospitals, and most everyone else treated in private
institutions just blocks away, according to explosive new data obtained
by The Post. 'It is a two-tiered system that leads to medical
apartheid,' said Nisha Argawall of the New York Lawyers for the Public
Interest.
Surgery racial shocker
Minority New Yorkers are 60 percent likelier to die after major
surgery than are whites -- and an alarming 20 percent likelier to die
even after simple hip-replacement or other more common procedures,
researchers found. The study of residents from all five
boroughs and Nassau and Westchester counties discovered that fewer
blacks are treated at 'high-volume' hospitals, where doctors perform
more cancer-related, cardiovascular and orthopedic surgeries.
Blacks are less likely to use such facilities for 16 of 17 surgical
procedures and Hispanics for 15 of the 17, the researchers write in the
medical journal Inquiry. context: middle
The largest disparity involves cancer and heart patients, with 20
percent fewer blacks treated in the higher-volume hospitals, the study
claims.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/surgery_racial_shocker_pphNBUKaQjCpnhqjtWhgyL
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hosp_apartheid_B1FRIROwt2FzbtIWAnHa9I
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