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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (96843)1/26/2005 11:45:40 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 793717
 
That said, it has been my experience that patients are rarely asked their ethnic background and that the person taking the medical history comes to a conclusion by merely eyeballing the patient, rather than asking the patient for specifics.

It makes sense to me to include the extended family, the tribe, when taking medical histories. What I questioned was the assertion that race is eyeballed and recorded by hospital technicians doing medical testing.

I've had plenty of chest xrays and blood tests and the like in hospitals. It's not at all clear to me why the technician would register my race let alone adjust the test results based on it, as was asserted. Do you know of any medical tests where race information affects the testing? Maybe if I had an example I could get my head around it.
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