The Difficult Road for the Minority Researcher

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Abstract
In a recent letter to the Editor (March 8 issue)1 on primary care in underserved areas and medical education, Garland stated that the general trend in medicine has been toward specialization and away from primary care. Although we agree with that perception, we can say that African-American physicians have traditionally chosen the primary care specialties in higher proportions than have nonminority physicians.2 Moreover, minority physicians have often responded to the needs of the community by combining subspecialty or clinical-research interests with work in an underserved area.3

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