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Welcome to “Intention to Treat,” a podcast exploring the critical issues shaping medicine today. In a new 8-week series, The Race Equation, we confront harmful assumptions about race in clinical medicine—from diagnostic algorithms to guidelines—exploring how these practices took hold, why they endure, and what it will take to change them. Hosted by health care journalist Rachel Gotbaum, the “Intention to Treat” podcast from the New England Journal of Medicine delves into groundbreaking research and clinical advances while sharing the personal stories from doctors and their patients, offering listeners a behind-the-scenes look at discoveries that are changing medical practice on the front lines of health care. Listen to The Race Equation and follow “Intention to Treat” on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Jun 24, 202628 min
The Attack on Equity in Medicine
The ripple effects of U.S. anti-DEI policies extend far beyond individual labs: scientific discovery is slowing, early‑career investigators are reconsidering their futures, and the pipeline of medical school applicants is shifting in real time. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2601982.
- Jun 17, 202624 min
Is Change Possible?
The use of race in medicine is harming patients. What is being done to move away from these practices and to change a culture of medicine based on the false premise that race is biological? A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2601981.
- Jun 10, 202626 min
The Myth of Race and Genetics
We now know that humans are more than 99.9% genetically alike. So why does medicine still link certain diseases to race? And what do genetics actually tell us about race, ancestry, and disease? A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2601980.
- Jun 3, 202625 min
BiDil — The Story of the Black Pill
How did a drug for congestive heart failure get approved and marketed for Black people only? A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2601978.
- May 27, 202626 min
When Race Matters
The story of the pulse oximeter demonstrates that sometimes consideration of race is critical to diagnosis and treatment — as came starkly into light during the Covid-19 pandemic. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2601977.
- May 20, 202624 min
Money and Misdiagnosis
Many Black veterans live below the poverty line, often struggling to manage their illnesses. As V.A. hospitals began to stop using race-corrected interpretation of Black patients’ spirometer readings, there was an epiphany: the race correction wasn’t just harming the health of Black patients, it was also hurting them financially. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2601976.
- May 13, 202631 min
How Did Race Get Into Lung Testing?
The history of race-based correction of lung-capacity measures can be traced to a pre–Civil War belief among slave owners that slaves had naturally inferior lung capacity. Despite work to show that race-corrected spirometers mask lung-disease severity in Black patients, the majority of U.S. hospitals still use them. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2601975.
- May 6, 202632 min
Meet the Equation
Many clinical algorithms, including the eGFR test for kidney function, have actually had race baked into them and produce different results for Black patients. Most of us assume these algorithms are based on science, but what if the science is wrong? A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2601974.
About Intention to Treat
Welcome to “Intention to Treat,” a podcast exploring the critical issues shaping medicine today. In a new 8-week series, The Race Equation, we confront harmful assumptions about race in clinical medicine—from diagnostic algorithms to guidelines—exploring how these practices took hold, why they endure, and what it will take to change them. Hosted by health care journalist Rachel Gotbaum, the “Intention to Treat” podcast from the New England Journal of Medicine delves into groundbreaking research and clinical advances while sharing the personal stories from doctors and their patients, offering listeners a behind-the-scenes look at discoveries that are changing medical practice on the front lines of health care. Listen to The Race Equation and follow “Intention to Treat” on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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