Black Pediatricians
24 Black pediatricians listed nationwide, 0 offering telehealth. Every listing self-identified; 24 license-checked.
A pediatrician looks after children from birth through the late teens. That covers newborn checks, growth and development, vaccines, ear infections and asthma, school and sports forms, feeding and sleep, puberty, and the mental health of a child who cannot yet name what is wrong.
Well visits come often in the first two years and then yearly. Go in between for a fever in a baby under three months, breathing that is fast or pulls in at the ribs, a child who will not drink, a rash with a fever, a head injury followed by vomiting or drowsiness, or any change in a child that you cannot explain and cannot shake off.
Bring the record and the specifics. The vaccine card. Growth charts if you have changed practices. What a fever measured, on what kind of thermometer, and when. Video of the breathing or the movement that worried you, because children behave beautifully in waiting rooms. And say plainly how much pain you believe your child is in, in numbers if you can.
The evidence for concordant care
In 2024 the mortality rate for Black infants was two times the rate for infants nationwide, 11.0 per 1,000 live births against 5.5, and Black infants were about two and a half times more likely than infants nationwide to die of sudden infant death syndrome [1].
Asthma is the clearest example of what happens after birth. Black children are 60 percent more likely than US children overall to have asthma, about two and a half times as likely to visit an emergency department for it, and almost four and a half times as likely to die from it [2]. The gap in deaths is far wider than the gap in who has the condition. That points at what happens after the diagnosis rather than at the diagnosis.
Pain is where the difference has been measured most precisely. In a national study of children treated in emergency departments for appendicitis, 56.8 percent received any pain medicine and 41.3 percent received an opioid [3]. After adjustment for age, sex, ethnicity, insurance, triage level and pain score, Black children were less likely than white children to receive opioid pain relief, 12.2 percent against 33.9 percent, an adjusted odds ratio of 0.2 [3]. Same diagnosis, same recorded pain score, roughly one fifth of the odds of being treated for it.
That is the argument for saying the pain number out loud, asking for it to be written down, and repeating it. It is also the argument for a clinician who does not have to be convinced twice.
Sources, checked 21 Aug 2026
- HHS Office of Minority Health. Infant Mortality and Black/African Americans. Fetched 21 Aug 2026.
- HHS Office of Minority Health. Asthma and Black/African Americans. Fetched 21 Aug 2026.
- JAMA Pediatrics (Goyal and colleagues, 2015). Racial Disparities in Pain Management of Children With Appendicitis in Emergency Departments. Fetched 21 Aug 2026.