Dr. Matthew Anderson This is Me

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   Published on: 9/25/2001   Last Visited: 7/3/2002

   In an article published this month in the journal Family Medicine, Dr. Matthew Anderson and his colleagues give an example of a presentation that started out by describiing a patient as a ¡°34-year-old, black, cocaine-using mom who just delivered her llth child prematurely.¡±
   
   Anderson, an assistant professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, argues that pairing race with behavior perpetuates a stereotype that could affect the medical care other black women receive.
   
   He and co-author Susan Moscou want patients to be presented ¡°as non-judgmentally as possible.¡± ¡°The minute a person hears a person¡¯s black, Latino, white, that already comes with a set of assumptions,¡± says Moscou, a family nurse practitioner at Montefiore Medical Group in New York.
   
   The American Anthropological Association has recommended eliminating the term ¡°race¡± in the 20l0 census.
   
   The Office of Management and Budget Control, which sets government standards for collecting data, has said the question of race likely will be revisited for the next census.
   
   In California, backers of a l996 initiative that ended most government affirmative action programs are now preparing for a new campaign to prohibit state and local governments from classifying or sorting students, contractors or employees by race or ethnicity.