About this episode

The episode discusses the harmful impact of using race in medicine and efforts to change these practices.

The use of race in medicine is harming patients. What is being done to move away from these practices and to change a culture of medicine based on the false premise that race is biological? A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2601981.

Topics covered

• race in medicine
• healthcare practices
• cultural change
• biological race
• patient harm

Keywords

• race
• medicine
• healthcare
• cultural change
• patient care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NEJM Group

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