The Philadelphia native, who spent years practicing medicine in Botswana and Haiti (and speaks fluent Creole), has been crusading on this issue for a while, including in Washington, D.C., as an adviser to the House Ways and Means Committee. Michelle Morse, the city’s first chief medical officer. ![]() And it’s fair to say one woman has been behind the shift: Dr. Over the past two years, half a dozen of the city’s biggest hospital networks, including NYU Langone Health and Northwell Health, have stopped using these algorithms. In New York, there has been a transformation. The formula and others like it are bogus, but changing the practice is complicated, the institutional equivalent of removing a tangled brain aneurysm. It’s one of the reasons why African Americans die from kidney disease at especially high rates. As a consequence, Black patients have often received inadequate treatment and been forced to wait longer for kidney transplants. Are their organs functioning normally, or is something wrong? For decades, parts of the medical industry have been using a racist formula to estimate kidney function that assumes Black people have greater muscle mass than white people. Undergirding the daily operations of doctors’ offices and hospitals, there are clinical formulas that tell physicians which patients are healthy and which are at risk. ![]() ![]() Michelle Morse at Queens Plaza station on October 2 at 9:38 a.m.
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