Although race provides “no pertinent information at all” to patient care and often serves as a distraction to doctors since it is a social construct not a biological reality, according to the Ted Talk from Dorothy Roberts, how do doctors use race medicine today?
Race plays a role in diagnostic tools, including using it as a proxy for muscle mass despite the fact that muscle mass does not vary by race
Race plays a role in the marketing of drugs, including BiDil, which suggested that Black people with heart disease needed a different drug than white people
Race is appropriately used to create medical instruments that “correct” for racial differences, so it is not improperly used by doctors
Both A and B
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