One of our biggest investigative series of the year has arrived
In this special edition of Weekend Reads, we're sharing our Embedded Bias investigation project. This series explores how these race-based clinical algorithms came to pervade medicine, the harm they may cause — and why it's proving so difficult to remove race from the equation. Thanks for reading. |
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Kayana Szymczak for STAT Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day. Why are they so hard to change? A STAT investigation found that race-based algorithms are still widely used on millions of patients a year — despite growing numbers of clinicians and researchers pointing out their medical flaws. Race-based calculators became a flashpoint after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, which ignited a movement for racial justice that rippled into medicine . But in the ensuing years, advocates fear that early progress is stalling . Read more.By Katie Palmer and Usha Lee McFarling |
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Marian Femenias-Moratinos for STAT How race became ubiquitous in medical decision-making tools "When you ask where did these algorithms come from, not all roads, but many roads lead back to slavery-era race science," said one historian. "The notion that Black people have different skin, different bones, different bone density, it all goes back to these pre-Civil war claims." Read more. By Usha Lee McFarling and Katie Palmer
Caroline Yang for STAT Inside the bruising battle to purge race from a kidney disease calculator The years-long battle to stop using race in kidney function equations offers lessons on what other specialties may face as they begin to grapple with their own use of race adjustments. More broadly, it illustrates how difficult it can be to usher change into the culture and power structures of medicine. Read more. By Usha Lee McFarling and Katie Palmer More from Embedded Bias |
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