Organic race continues to be generally used as a diagnostic device in medication. Why?
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Jackie Lay for NPR
Organic race continues to be generally used as a diagnostic device in medication. Why?
Jackie Lay for NPR
We have in all probability stated it 100 occasions on Code Swap — organic race isn’t an actual factor. So why is race nonetheless used to assist diagnose sure circumstances, like keloids or cystic fibrosis? On this episode, Dr. Andrea Deyrup breaks it down for us, and unpacks the issues she sees with practising race-based medication, from delayed diagnoses to ignoring environmental components that result in totally different well being outcomes. She says that whereas race-based well being disparities are very actual, the concept our our bodies are genetically totally different based mostly on race is just not.
Dr. Deyrup is a professor of pathology at Duke College, in addition to the course director of the Duke medical college pathology course. Yow will discover extra of her work, together with her video on keloids, on her web site, pathologycentral.org.
This episode was hosted by Gene Demby, produced by Jess Kung, and edited by Leah Donnella. Our engineer was Josh Newell.
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