Jun 1, 2026 · 25 min · 9 segments
We bring you an episode of "Intention to Treat: The Race Equation." It's a new series from the New England Journal of Medicine that investigates how race-specific diagnostic tools harm Black patients…
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Cheryl ConnorGuestWhat happens when medicine gets race wrong? That's the question Rachel Gottbaum sets out to answer in the 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 will 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 here, and then head over to Intention to Treat, wherever you're listening to podcasts, to get all eight episodes in this season.
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