Posted on 11/13/2004 5:23:54 PM PST by neverdem
You're now on the record, Dr. Bloche....you're inference is to pull the plug on meds that could help a specific ethnicity.
Enjoy the hot seat.
This has got LAWSUIT written all over it.
Pull the plug. It's the politically correct thing to do, and you'll get no argument from anyone.
' ''Anything that invites the perception of African Americans as biologically different is a huge worry,'' said Dr. Gregg Bloche, a Georgetown University physician who studies racial disparities in health care.'
Well, look. Here's a pill that can save a minimum of 10,000 lives a year. Those invested in racial politics don't want it distributed. Those who will likely die without it...will very likely find a way to wrap their brains around a bent-paperclip logic so that they can live.
I find the whole "once we go down that road" argument about differentiation in races and ethnicities re diseases and treatments absurd. Especially since we are way the hell down that road already. Sickle cell anemia? Taysack's disease? The list goes on.
If you're black and a pill that science has developed can not only improve your life but save it, shut up and take the pill. If you're black or any other color and you want to hold cures and medicines up because you fear for the "impact" they will have on society, etc....just shut up.
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I guess this Doctor doesnt believe in Sickle Cell either.
"But not everyone is cheering unreservedly. Many people, including some African-Americans, have long been uneasy with the concept of race-based medicine, in part from fear that it may legitimize less benign ideas about race. "
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!!!
This is PC raised to a Criminal level.
Race is determined genetically. Predisposition to certain diseases is determined genetically. It is inevitable that linkages exist.
It's all Bush's fault, anyway.
Unless I missed it, I don't think anyone said that at all.
The actual fact is that the black aspect is pure marketing -- nothing at all to do with the mechanism of the drug.
It is marketing.
African americans need higher dosages of some Lupus drugs too. They usually get lower doses and suffer greatly.
Medicine is medicine. If it helps you, is there a color to it?
...but this also begs the question...how will researchers define and qualify the term "Black"?
Welcome to the brave new wonderful world of PC medicine.
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BTTT
So the PC crowd would rather let blacks die than allow them access to this medicine-which helps thembecause they happen to be black?
And we're the ones who are supposed to be racist?
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