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But radiologists are in the business of making correct interpretations as quickly as possible. The race of the patient seldom enters their consciousness, even when an ornamental gold incisor obscures the odontoid process on a cervical spine series or when marked steatopygia degrades the quality of an AP pelvis. Few practicing physicians have the time, interest, or spare mental energy to play at guessing race.

What I find particularly bizarre (and professionally insulting) is the researcher’s assumption that if doctors can find out a patient’s race, they will somehow mistreat him because of “bias.” I suspect that this concern, for which no evidence is offered, is a cover for a deeper fear. The objective demonstration of race and sex differences is a scary prospect because it threatens America’s civic religion of absolute human equality. Hence the trend to omit race from the clinical history.

Transsexual activists are now pushing to eliminate “gender” from the medical record too. Heavens, what if a smart machine could identify the patient’s sex? The radiologist might be able to tell a cervical remnant from an enlarged prostate, or an ER doc might differentiate pregnancy from dyspepsia. What a disaster that would be if it denied our equality!

The unending quest for social justice requires sacrifice; and if accurate diagnosis of race- or sex-specific conditions is a casualty of progress, well, at least we can all feel good about ourselves.

https://vdare.com/posts/ai-race-and-x-rays-machines-discover-what-humans-have-been-trained-not-to-notice