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To: DMaA who wrote (96788)1/25/2005 10:15:46 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 793717
 
So let me get this straight -- at your hospital, race is so important that if the patient doesn't put his/her race down on the intake sheet, the intake personnel guess at his/her race?

Do you see the logical disconnect here? It's so important that they guess what it is.

Sounds pretty reckless to me.

Unless what's really going on has nothing to do with medicine, but is just mindless record keeping.

Virginia until just a year or two ago required race on statistical forms like marriage records and divorce records, but we finally got with the 21st century and they don't require that anymore. I was relieved, I always felt like an idiot asking people what race they were and what race their soon-to-be-ex-spouse was. But I never guessed!
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