May 21, 2009
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Recent decades have seen a remarkable change in the delivery of health care services. Nurse practitioners now have much greater prescribing authority, consumers can purchase more than 700 over-the-counter medications once available only by prescription, and numerous devices have become available that enable a nurse, technician, or consumer -- rather than a physician or a laboratory -- to diagnose or monitor a medical condition.
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Minorities continue to fight an uphill battle for a career in medicine and science. They are hampered by historically understaffed, underfunded and ill-supplied schools; a lack of career mentorship as well as institutional and historical racism and inadequate financial resources. Despite these obstacles, there are effective ways to reverse the inequities of minorities in medicine.
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