How Useful Are Racial Categories In Medical Practice And Research?
Is it good medical practice for physicians to “eyeball” a patient’s race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race? Three articles in this week’s PLoS Medicine discuss the pitfalls of such racial profiling in both clinical practice and medical research. [click link for full article]
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Filed under: Primary Care on September 26th, 2007