# Nearly half reject the idea that patients do better with same-race doctors

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## Reading

Skepticism outweighs agreement on whether patients get better outcomes from a doctor of their own racial background: 47% disagree, including 25% who strongly disagree, compared with 16% who agree, according to an October 2024 Verasight survey.

The remaining 37% neither agree nor disagree.

## Topline

Patients are likely to have a better health outcomes when treated by doctors of the same racial background as themselves.

Nearly half reject the idea that patients do better with same-race doctors.

Net findings combine adjacent response options from the same scale.

- Neither agree nor disagree: 36.9%
- Strongly disagree: 25.3%
- Disagree: 22.2%
- Agree: 11.5%
- Strongly agree: 4.2%

## Methodology

- Mode: Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
- Population: US adults age 18+
- Field dates: 2024-10-01 → 2024-10-11
- Base (unweighted): 1,000
- Margin of error: +/- 3.4%
- Module: educ_pol
- Sponsor: Verasight
- Weight variable: weight
- Weighting targets: age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status

## Source

- Canonical question URL: [https://verasight-apsa-2024.tiiny.co#health-outcomes-and-doctor-race](https://verasight-apsa-2024.tiiny.co#health-outcomes-and-doctor-race)

## Citation

Verasight APSA Omnibus Survey #2024-103, fielded October 1-11, 2024, N=1,000 US adults age 18+, +/- 3.4%.

Canonical question URL: [https://verasight-apsa-2024.tiiny.co#health-outcomes-and-doctor-race](https://verasight-apsa-2024.tiiny.co#health-outcomes-and-doctor-race)