{"id":1005,"date":"2015-10-26T08:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2015-10-26T08:52:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:52:20","slug":"fewer-black-men-apply-to-medical-school-than-in-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Black Men Apply To Medical School Than In 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Lauren Silverman, KERA &#8211; Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Oviea Akpotaire and Jeffrey Okonye put in long days working with patients at the veterans\u2019 hospital in south Dallas as\u00a0fourth-year medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern.<\/p>\n<p>In a class of 237 people, they are two of only five black men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew the ones above us, below us,\u201d Okonye says. \u201cWe all kind of know each other. It\u2019s comforting to see another person that looks like you.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/fewer-black-men-apply-to-medical-school-than-in-1978\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=23144283&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_LwOUAkQU8i6zodx1x5e_KqJL9HsgMV2WeAgWtwm4BO_FHdwPaddd9x40knLIABmCwdZ5HejoupWKz48HBF7yW5Jru9g&amp;_hsmi=23144283\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid\r\n on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Lauren Silverman, KERA &#8211; Kaiser Health News) Oviea Akpotaire and Jeffrey Okonye put in long days working with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}