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Is There a Difference Between Race and Pulse Oximetry?
Amaka Inanya is working to remove race from the EGFR equation. Michael Schoding says that ignoring differences in skin color is what causes pulse oximeters to be inaccurate. Medicine has a long history of both making unscientific assumptions about black people and ignoring black people altogether.