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The increases were due to the pressures of the Federal
Government, the availability of private funds, and the general
recognition by medical school facilities -- like that at Davis -- that
it would take more than regular admissions policies and procedures
to redress the imbalance caused by 200 years of separate and unequal
education in America.

Put another way, the figures become more stark. Black people
are 13% of the population, but only 2.6% of the Doctors. There are
over five million Mexican Americans in America -- only 250 of them are
Doctors. There are nearly a million Native Americans -- only 72 are
Doctors. While there is one white Physician for every 538 white people,
for blacks the ratio is one to every 13,888. To bring these figures
in line with what they ought to be, the Country would have to produce
29,000 additional black Doctors immediately. (These are comforting
statistics only if you believe that white people are sicker than
black people are.)