Introducing - Intention to Treat: Money and Misdiagnosis
6/10/202625 min
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Intention to Treat: The Race Equation is a new series from the New England Journal of Medicine, investigates how race-specific diagnostic tools harm Black patients and contribute to growing health inequities.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:02
What happens when medicine gets race wrong? That's the question Rachel Gottbaum sets out to answer in this new series of Intention to Treat from the New England Journal of Medicine. Intention to Treat confronts harmful assumptions about race in clinical medicine, why they endure, and what it'll take to change. In this episode, Gottbaum investigates how a race correction used to determine which patients receive work-related medical disability benefits has prevented countless Black workers, including war veterans, from receiving benefits owed to them. She also interviews Dr. Peter Sporn and Dr. Cheryl Conner, who are leading efforts to remove race correction from lung function testing at VA hospitals. Listen, and then head over to Intention to Treat wherever you're listening to podcasts to get all eight episodes in this season.
Marcus· Guest0:51
My name is Marcus. I served in the United States Army. I'm a Desert Storm veteran.
Rachel Gotbaum· Host0:58
Marcus is 61 years old, and he's a patient at a Veterans Affairs hospital in the Midwest. He's asked that we only use his first name and not reveal the VA where he gets his medical care.
Marcus· Guest1:10
I was serving the country. It was over in the African continent. I really can't go into much detail with that.
Rachel Gotbaum· Host1:18
Like a lot of Gulf War veterans, Marcus was exposed to toxic smoke from burn pits during his deployment. Picture massive open-air fires, some as large as a football field.