Recently in the United States, the public has placed more attention on the well-being of black citizens—especially with the emergence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. One of the topics that is being discussed is the health of black people, as there are many disparities between black’s and white’s statistics regarding many diseases and the mortality rate. Thus, there are a multitude of reasons why black doctors are important for black patients including trust, comfortability, satisfaction, and seeking treatment. Trust is a very common attribute that black patients may feel they lack with a white doctor, or any doctor of another race or ethnicity. This is most likely due to the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis that occurred from 1932
