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Old 09-09-2003, 01:31 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Racial categories do sometimes convey useful information about people. When diagnosing a patient, doctors often consider race. For example, this person has fatigue, breathlessness, rapid heart rate, bone pain. Knowing that they are black might decrease the time it takes to diagnose them as suffering from sickle cell anemia (more common in african american populations than European Americans), leading to quicker treatment.
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