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Paul Cotton
JAMA Medical News Chicago, Ill

JAMA. 1992;268(19):2649.

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—There was unanimous consensus among health care leaders in Los Angeles County that the way the health care system there treats poor, inner-city populations contributed to the rage that fueled the riot or rebellion. However inflammatory and counterproductive this opinion might seem to Dr Copperman, it was nonetheless widely held by people with firsthand knowledge of the situation. And none of these sources intended their remarks as an indictment of caring physicians.

There was also consensus among those endeavoring to address this problem that representatives from these underserved communities must have a voice in how this problem is addressed. The representatives of these communities are hardly "a faculty of the ignorant." They not only have as much right as any community in self-determination of their health care needs, they are best suited for the task because they understand their own communities better than any outsider ever could.

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