{"id":63916,"date":"2022-06-21T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63916"},"modified":"2022-06-21T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:41:26","slug":"race-is-often-used-as-medical-shorthand-for-how-bodies-work-some-doctors-want-to-change-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63916","title":{"rendered":"Race Is Often Used as Medical Shorthand for How Bodies Work. Some Doctors Want to Change That."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/race-medical-shorthand-kidney-care-transplant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Race Is Often Used as Medical Shorthand for How Bodies Work. Some Doctors Want to Change That.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/race-medical-shorthand-kidney-care-transplant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KHN<\/a> (Kaiser Health News)<br \/>\n2022-06-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/raelnb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rae Ellen Bichell<\/strong><\/a>, Colorado Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaraRAnthony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cara Anthony<\/strong><\/a>, Midwest Correspondent<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/race-medical-shorthand-kidney-care-transplant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; width: 95%;\" src=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/KidneyDonation20_3x2web.jpg?resize=2048,1365\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"display: block; width: 95%; font-size: x-small;\">When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pat-holterman-hommes-00a8215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pat Holterman-Hommes<\/a> read in 2021 that her former colleague, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/alphonso-harried-kidney-transplant-fundraiser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alphonso Harried<\/a>, was waiting for a kidney transplant, she wanted to see if she could donate one. <em>(Joe Martinez for KHN)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1284943306&amp;color=ff5500\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"SciFri\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/scifri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SciFri<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Some Doctors Want To Change How Race Is Used In Medicine\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/scifri\/some-doctors-want-to-change-how-race-is-used-in-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some Doctors Want To Change How Race Is Used In Medicine<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Several months ago, a lab technologist at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesjewish.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnes-Jewish Hospital<\/a> mixed the blood components of two people: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/alphonso-harried-kidney-transplant-fundraiser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alphonso Harried<\/a>, who needed a kidney, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pat-holterman-hommes-00a8215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pat Holterman-Hommes<\/a>, who hoped to give him one.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to see whether Harried\u2019s body would instantly see Holterman-Hommes\u2019 organ as a major threat and attack it before surgeons could finish a transplant. To do that, the technologist mixed in fluorescent tags that would glow if Harried\u2019s immune defense forces would latch onto the donor\u2019s cells in preparation for an attack. If, after a few hours, the machine found lots of glowing, it meant the kidney transplant would be doomed. It stayed dark: They were a match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was floored,\u201d said Harried&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/race-medical-shorthand-kidney-care-transplant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists widely agree that race is a social construct, yet it is often conflated with biology, leaving the impression that a person\u2019s race governs how the body functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,2039,8,20],"tags":[33578,33581,33592,33580,33583,33582,17002,33584,33585,33588,33586,773,33587,33577,33579,778,33590,33591,33589],"class_list":["post-63916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alphonso-harried","tag-barnes-jewish-hospital","tag-barry-freedman","tag-cara-anthony","tag-kaiser-family-foundation","tag-kaiser-health-news","tag-keith-norris","tag-kff","tag-khn","tag-lisa-mcelroy","tag-marva-moxey-mims","tag-missouri","tag-nwamaka-eneanya","tag-pat-holterman-hommes","tag-rae-ellen-bichell","tag-st-louis","tag-tanjala-purnell","tag-tarek-alhamad","tag-vanessa-grubbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63920,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63916\/revisions\/63920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}