The problem with race based medicine, Dorothy Roberts

Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Racebased medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient s skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk, Roberts lays out the lingering traces of racebased medicine and invites us to be a part of ending it. It is more urgent than ever to finally abandon th