Pseudoscience: Proportion of Black physicians in U.S. has changed little in 120 years

University of California promotes pseudoscience in the service of  demagoguery!

The way this UCLA PhD researchers is spinning his results is disturbing!

What about other minority physicians?

I also bet that the income comparisons are flawed! Perhaps, black physicians voluntarily are choosing other specialties than white physicians for varying reasons etc.

What the heck is this PhD author talking about:
Black physicians increased from 1.3% of total population in 1900 to 5.8% in 2018 of which 2.8% are black females. 

Median income gap adjusted for inflation narrowed from $68,000 in 1960 to $50,000 in 2018! 

This is a remarkable improvement by any means!

"... The research also spotlights a significant income gap between white and Black male physicians — a disparity, the researcher writes, that could reflect a combination of pay discrimination and unequal access for physicians to pursue careers in more lucrative specialties. ...

He found that in 1900, when 11.6% of the nation’s population was Black, 1.3% of physicians were Black. In 1940, when 9.7% of the total population was Black, 2.8% of physicians were Black — 2.7% of were Black men and 0.1% were Black women. By 2018, when 12.8% of the total population was Black, 5.4% of U.S. physicians were Black — 2.6% Black men and 2.8% Black women.

Although the percentage of Black women physicians increased 2.7 percentage points between 1940 and 2018, the proportion of physicians who are Black men during the same period has remained essentially unchanged [What an utter nonsense!]. ...
adjusted for inflation, the difference in median income between Black and white male physicians was about $68,000 in 1960. Although that gap narrowed a bit by 2018, to $50,000, the discrepancy was still troublingly wide ...

“If this represents unequal access to specialties, sustained efforts need to be made in order to diversify specialties in medicine,” Ly said."

Proportion of Black physicians in U.S. has changed little in 120 years, UCLA research finds | UCLA A new UCLA study finds that the proportion of physicians who are Black in the U.S. has increased by only 4 percentage points over the past 120 years, and that the share of doctors who are Black men remains unchanged since 1940.

Here is the link to the underlying research article:

Historical Trends in the Representativeness and Incomes of Black Physicians, 1900–2018 (no public access)