Many physicians
have taken the one size fits all approach when it comes to treating
African American. The development of the new drug BiDil a drug
that works best in African Americans for the treatment of Heart
failure has recently been released. The development of BiDil
is just the beginning of drugs that studies show will have better
outcome for black people. The good news about about this new
research is that physicians will now have to consider your race
in treatment. Don’t assume that your race is taken into
consideration in all cases. The bad news is that many African
Americans want care one way or another if race is consider and
that is a tragedy of major proportion. Here is an example where
race is very important. African Americans males have lower PSA
associated with a higher prevalence of prostate cancer than
our white brothers. The same goes for certain medications in
among females and older vs. younger people . I am Dr. Thaddeus
John Bell closing the gap in health care. 7/6/05
