Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
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- 25 September 2007
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 4 (9) , e271
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040271
Abstract
Is it good medical practice for physicians to "eyeball" a patient's race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race?Keywords
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