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  • Less than 5.7% of physicians are black
  • Less than 6% of surgeons are black
  • Less than 9% of APN’s are black
  • Less than 3% of dentists are black
  • African-Americans consistently have more negative health outcomes compared to other races. Mistrust of the healthcare system is a common reason.

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  • Acupuncture
  • Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force — known as chi or qi (chee) — believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your energy flow will re-balance.

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  • Allergy
  • Exaggerated or pathological immunological reaction (as by sneezing, difficult breathing, itching, or skin rashes) to substances, situations, or physical states that are without comparable effect on the average individual

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  • Allergy & Immunology
  • Alt Medicine
  • Emergency Medicine is a primary, or first-contact point of care for patients requiring the use of the health care system.
    Emergency physicians are responsible for providing immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, to adult and pediatric patients in response to acute illness and injury.

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  • Anesthesiologist
  • A physician trained to give you anesthesia (pain medicine) and who cares for you before, during and after your surgery.

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  • Pain Management
  • Pain Medicine
  • Pathology
  • Ped. Hospice & Palliative Med.
  • Pediatric Allergy
  • Pediatric Dentist
  • Pediatric Surgery
  • Pediatrics
  • Periodontist
  • Pharmacy
  • Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  • Physical Therapy
  • Physician
  • Physician Assistant
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Podiatry
  • Preventive Medicine
  • Primary Care
  • Prosthodontist
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychiatry-Child
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Pulmonary Diseases
  • Pulmonology

R

  • Radiology
  • Rheumatology

S

  • Specialist
  • Speech Therapy
  • Sports Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Surgical Oncology

T

  • Telemedicine
  • Thoracic Surgery
  • Transplant Surgery

U

  • Urgent Care
  • Urology

V

  • Vascular Surgery

W

  • Weight Loss Specialist
  • Women's Health