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63. What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Dr. Amaka Inanya is a nephrologist or kidney doctor. She says an equation that doctors have used for decades to estimate kidney function has been controversial. The number determines crucial things about a patient's care, including whether they're eligible for a spot on the wait list or a kidney transplant. If you took two patients with identical health profiles, one black and one white, the black patients' estimated kidney function would look better than the white patients.

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