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Surviving the ER.(NEWS)
IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM, your color may be a powerful predictor of your chances of coming out alive.
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That's what researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine concluded when they looked at the intersection of race, insurance coverage and trauma-related death.
The study, based on data from nearly 430,000 trauma cases across the country, found that among people with health insurance, the risk of death for Black patients was 20-percent higher, and for Latinos more than 50-percent higher, compared ...
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