How considering race can sabotage health care | Stanford Medicine Magazine 2021

Megan Mahoney M.D., Chief of Staff at Stanford Health Care, discusses the relevance of considering race in the provision of care. Has the genomic revolution once and for all made race meaningless in medicine? Dr. Mahoney examines this question, informed by her experiences as a biracial physician who doesn't herself fit neatly into a legacy system of classification, which much of modern medicine still actively uses to diagnose and treat patients.

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