Letter to the Editor: Disclosing Race in Case Reports

Thank you for the instructive case reports of young people in long-term care in the May, 2021 issue (Caring for the Ages 2021, 22(4): 10-11; https://bit.ly/3hH7kzF). I noticed that the person ’s race was documented at the beginning of the report. Specifying the race of the patient in the opening sentence of the physical exam was a habit that I picked up in medical school. I have discontinued this habit in answer to the call of the Massachusetts Medical Society leadership to be anti-rac ist.
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