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To: zeta1961 who wrote (96839)1/26/2005 7:46:07 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 793717
 
I have no idea whether indication of race has a state law component or not. My sister is the head of nursing at a hospital in Baton Rouge, I'll ask her later today and report back to you.

As for the genetics of race -- how on earth would putting "white" on a chart flag Eastern-European ancestry? For that matter, how does "white" or "Asian" flag any genetic disease? I suppose you could argue that putting "black" will flag the one-in-600 chance that a black patient has sickle cell anemia, although my guess is that any child in the PICU has already had a CBC and some indication as to whether the blood work is abnormal.

The assertion that reference ranges for medical tests have racial components is something I can't help but doubt. I've got several medical reference books on laboratory tests and the word "race" doesn't even show up in them. Is there really a different "normal" for blacks and whites on blood tests? If so, which tests?

You were one of the people throwing the pejorative "PC" into the discussion. What about the well-documented fact that health care providers give different care to patients based on their race? For example, are less likely to aggressively treat cardiac symptoms in black men? Here is an example from the New England Journal of Medicine:
medicinenet.com
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