Reappraising Medical Syntax—Does Race Belong in the First Line of the Patient History?

Abstract

Letters Editor's Note alizable to other hospitals or health systems. Moreover, the au- Reappraising Medical Syntax—Does Race Belong thors did not investigate clinical outcomes associated with in the First Line of the Patient History? differential documentation of race. The findings, however, raise In the midst of the resurgent movement for racial justice, the question of whether basic medical practices, such as how physicians and health care institutions should carefully look...