About this episode

This episode explores how race-specific diagnostic tools negatively impact Black patients and exacerbate health inequities.

We bring you an episode of "Intention to Treat: The Race Equation." It's a new series from the New England Journal of Medicine that investigates how race-specific diagnostic tools harm Black patients and contribute to growing health inequities.

Topics covered

• health inequities
• diagnostic tools
• race-specific medicine
• misdiagnosis
• Black patients

Keywords

• health inequities
• diagnostic tools
• race
• misdiagnosis
• Black patients

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New England Journal of Medicine

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