Cheryl Connor
Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at University of Illinois at Chicago and Section Chief of Hospital Medicine at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center; physician and health equity advocate.
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Jun 1, 2026
Rachel GotbaumHOST
The race correction wasn't just harming the health of their Black patients, it was also hurting them financially.
Cheryl ConnorGUEST
Compensation and pension uses specific PFT numbers to determine the amount of money that veterans get if they have a lung-related disability.
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Cheryl ConnorGUEST
The harms of staying race-based are that we are going to be underestimating and potentially undertreating our Black veterans with lung disease.
Cheryl ConnorGUEST
It's unscientific, [laughs] like, doesn't, just isn't based in reality, so, like, we should stop doing it.