Racial categories in medical practice: how useful are they?

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Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Published: September 2007

Is it good medical practice for physicians to "eyeball" a patient's race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race?

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