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Racism in Health: the harms of biased medicine

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Race Based Medicine

Andrea Deyrup is a pathologist and medical educator who focuses on so-called race-based medicine. She says that in many cases where race and disease are tied together, there's no real reason for it. Take the example of keyloids: These are irregular kinds of scars that are often claimed to be more common in people with darker skin. But when Andrea tried to track down the origin of that number, she found it was from a pretty unreliable source.

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