This is a really interesting study: black infants survive more with black docs. My first thought was that some kind of selection was driving it, but digging into some of the results I'm not sure what to make of it all.https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/12/1913405117 …
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if black patients have higher underlying/latent risk and white docs are assigned to higher risk patients , unless you measure that risk very accurately, white doctor/black patient outcomes will be worse, even "controlling" for risk, bc drawing from a higher risk distribution
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The physician FEs should cover it if it's just white docs getting higher-risk patients in general, but if some docs see white lower-risk parents while also getting a more diverse set of higher-risk ones, that could create the interaction they found.
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some of the many issues with the paper and new fun problems introduced in interpretation
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I believe we absolutely need more Black physicians, and more physicians from multiple under-represented groups!
Unfortunately, the paper is too weak to make the claim CNN is amplifying
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