like racism in medicine is well documented in a variety of ways but to not address the effects of skin color.......in the skin unit.......
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still thinking abt my med school friends telling me how basically all the examples & diagnostics in their dermatology units assume the patient is light skinned
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some programs have made progress on this to various degrees, but until very, very recently this was basically universally true you will be *stunned* to learn that mortality outcomes are worse for nonwhites than whites for the same skin conditions
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Even "reference" DNA that we compare genomic sequences is mostly white. This affects pretty much all determinations of pathogenicity of genes. Very few bother to address this. Good report from statnews: https://www.statnews.com/2019/03/11/human-reference-genome-shortcomings/ …pic.twitter.com/dqZCeRye1T
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my research is basically patient record data mining, and gotta say, when I talk to drs about domain-specific things, loooots of it is focused on white people primarily
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One of my “favorite” things about this is that all the image recognition algorithms for diagnosing cancerous moles also only work on light skin
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