Americans are catching up on
healthcare missed during the COVID-19 pandemic, a trend driven
by heart procedures and outpatient orthopedic surgeries that
likely won t soon slow, according to interviews.
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Some in the medical community now question the use of race in kidney care. They argue it could exacerbate health disparities.
As the U.S. grapples with the effects of systemic racism, some in the medical community are questioning whether the tools they use to assess patient health may be contributing to racial health disparities.
That debate is playing out most prominently in the world of kidney medicine. Black people are almost four times more likely to suffer from kidney failure than non-Hispanic whites.
And once they get to that stage, Black patients spend months longer waiting for a kidney transplant than white patients.