The move away from race-conscious medicine makes me a bit uncomfortable. If as the article says, we know that race is a proxy for a set of health factors on a population basis, it sure seems like it might be a statistically helpful weighting. I obviously have more reading to do.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/health/heart-disease-race.html
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