Anatomy of a Myth: How a Debunked Racial Concordance Study Infiltrated Every Corner of the Medical Field
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study in August 2020 titled, “Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns” that examined the effects of racial concordance on infant mortality. The notion that racial concordance – when patients are treated by physicians of the same race – improves health […]
