http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/08/19/racial-medicine-not-so-fast.aspxNext time you want to start a bar fight, proclaim to everyone within earshot that “race is not real; it is just a social and cultural construct and has no biological validity.” Then duck before you get punched in the face. . . . but as you're avoidingenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 2.18)http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/08/19/racial-medicine-not-so-fast.aspx#576726Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:05:33 GMT544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:576726C. MacLean<p>It may be a mistake to make treatment decisions based on race, but racial disparities in health care is very, very real. </p> <p>While learning of one's genome may be all well and good, what difference will it make for the millions of African-Americans who can't afford to see a doctor in the first place, and can't afford the medications prescribed if they do manage to see a doctor?</p> <p>We make decision about health care based on race in this country every day. </p> <p>Unfortunately, we consistently make the wrong ones.</p> Blog: Lab Notes