Is systemic racism in medicine putting Black people’s lives at risk?
Is systemic racism in medicine putting Black people’s lives at risk?
www.theguardian.com Is systemic racism in medicine putting Black people’s lives at risk?
Across the world, medical tests are being adjusted according to patients’ skin colour – with shocking consequences
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Yes.
That should be a statement, not a question.
The real answer is that the studies used to develop these various equations find differences in different racial groups and factor them into equations without asking why. In essence, race is being used as a proxy for socioeconomic status, and really we should be doing studies that account for those underlying factors rather than just lazily using race as a proxy.