Clinical assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Writer and nephrologist who serves as a primary care clinician in the Alameda Health System in Oakland, California.
AMA J Ethics. 2022 Mar 1;24(3):E226-232. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.226.
Modern medicine has always endorsed White supremacy by maintaining social, political, and economic structures that have exacerbated Black and Brown persons' lived embodiment of racism. Racial essentialism persists in health professions education and practice, especially in kidney disease etiology and intervention. This article considers how glomerular filtration rate estimates are one example of historically, politically, and scientifically situated racialized practice in health care today that illuminates a glaring need to abolish race-based clinical care of any kind.
现代医学通过维持加剧黑人和棕色人种所经历的种族主义的社会、政治和经济结构，一直支持白人至上。在健康专业教育和实践中，种族本质论仍然存在，尤其是在肾脏病病因学和干预方面。本文探讨了肾小球滤过率估计如何成为当今医疗保健中历史上、政治上和科学上存在的种族主义实践的一个例子，这凸显了废除任何基于种族的临床护理的迫切需要。
