As of 2021, roughly one in 14 active physicians in the United States were Hispanic (regardless of race). Asians were overrepresented, accounting for one in five physicians in the U.S., while Asians made up just seven percent of the total U.S. population.

This statistic shows the results of a survey regarding U.S. physicians' average annual compensation, as of 2024, by race and ethnicity. According to the survey, white/Caucasian physicians earned an average annual income of 369,000 U.S. dollars, much higher than 332,000 U.S. dollars earned on average by African American/Black doctors.

In 2021, 68 percent of respondents who identified as Hispanic mentioned that they had some level of trust in their physicians. In general, people of color in the U.S. were less likely to completely or somewhat trust their physicians in comparison to white Americans.

This statistic shows the number of times adults in the U.S. went to the doctor for a check-up in the past year as of February 2017, by ethnicity. It was found that 20 percent or Black or African American respondents and 19 percent of Hispanic American or Latino respondents had no check-ups with a doctor in the past year.

In 2023, around 38 percent of Hispanic men in the United States stated they had no personal doctor or health care provider. This statistic shows the percentage of men in the U.S. who reported having no personal doctor or health care provider in 2023, by race and ethnicity.

As of August 2023, some 30 percent of Black U.S. adults mentioned that they only sometimes trust doctors or other health care providers. While a further three percent mentioned that they do not trust health care providers. However, nearly seven out of ten U.S. adults across all racial groups indicated that they trust doctors and other health care providers all or most of the time to do what is right for them and their community.

This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted in the United States in February 2017, by ethnicity. U.S. adults were asked how much pressure from the pharma industry they believe physicians are under to prescribe certain drugs to their patients. In total, 21 percent of Black or African American respondents felt that the pressure from the pharmaceutical industry on doctors is very high.

In 2022, around 21 percent of white, non-Hispanic adults in the United States had doctor-diagnosed arthritis in some form. This statistic displays the prevalence of doctor-diagnosed arthritis in the adult population in the United States in 2022, adjusted for age, by race and ethnicity.

This statistic shows the percentage of adults in the U.S. who visited select doctors for check-ups as of February 2017, by gender. It was found that only 23 percent of African American respondents went to a general practitioner for check-ups, compared to 48 percent of White respondents.

This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted in the United States in January 2017. U.S. adults were asked if they ever tried alternative practitioners. Some 60 percent of respondents among Blacks/African Americans stated that they did not try alternative practioners but they might try it.

This statistic shows the number of times adults in the U.S. went to the doctor for acute treatment in the past year as of February 2017, by ethnicity. It was found that 24 percent of Black or African respondents went to the doctor up to three times for acute treatments in the past twelve months.

This statistic displays the opinions of U.S. adults on laws allowing doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in 2013, by ethnicity. Some 32 percent of Hispanic adults in the United States approved of laws allowing for physician-assisted suicide. In the last 15 years, the percentage of people saying that medical professionals should do everything possible to save a patients life has increased.

This statistic shows the percentage of adults in the U.S. who visited a doctor right away when suffering from select symptoms as of February 2017, by ethnicity. It was found that 22 percent of Hispanic respondents went to a doctor right away when experiencing back pain, compared to 13 percent of White respondents.

This statistic shows the number of times adults in the U.S. who suffered at least once per month from headache went to a doctor for treatment for their headache in the past year, as of February 2017, by ethnicity. In total, 41 percent of Hispanic Americans or Latinos had up to five treatments for headaches at a physician's office, compared to just 18 percent of White or Caucasian respondents.

From 2019 to 2021, around 39 million white, non-Hispanic adults in the United States had doctor-diagnosed arthritis. This statistic illustrates the number of adults with doctor-diagnosed arthritis in the United States from 2019 to 2021, by race and ethnicity.

In 2023, 38 percent of Black immigrant adults in the U.S. reported they have been treated differently or unfairly by a doctor or other health care provider due to their racial or ethnic background. This statistic represents the share of immigrant adults who stated that since coming to the U.S., a doctor or health provider has treated them differently or unfairly as of 2023, by race.

There have been 106 Nobel Prize winners in medicine from the United States since the founding of the Foundation in 1901. The country with the second most Nobel laureates is the United Kingdom, with 31 people as of 2024. The two 2024 Nobel prize winners in medicine both come from the United States.