Racism in Health: the harms of biased medicine
Nature Podcast
The Use of Race in Medicine Continues
Two people who socially identify as black may have far less in common biologically than any other random two people of any race or background. So what we've been doing is just applying these very superficial, if not seriously problematic notions of race to scientific studies. When race is interpreted as biological, it can pull focus from other variables which might actually be more relevant. Direct discrimination is likely a factor here as well. Studies have shown that black and Hispanic people in the US are less likely to have their care classified as immediate or urgent biclinicians.
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