Re: War by Other Means: Black Republicans Vote Black Democrat?

On Jun 1, 6:05 am, Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2008 06:38:33 +0800,RichAsianKidwrote
> (in article
> <d1a6108a-acf5-4335-a9c6-c5a23481b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
> > On May 22, 1:17 am, Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >> Any doctor who gave (or withheld) medicine on the basis of skin color
(=
now
> >> that DNA sequencing is so cheap) causing death or injury would be
> >> successfully sued for malpractice.
>
> > Explain this then. A 45 year old black versus a 45 year old non-black.
> > Should the doctor give the same drug for those two patients?
>
> >    http://i30.tinypic.com/200fqt4.jpg
>
> Biologically, which also means "medically speaking" there are no races.
No=

> patient is "black". No patient is "non-black".
>
> Let discuss this in a concrete case.
>
> There is a disease called Sickle-cell anaemia. "This disease occurs more
> commonly in people (or their descendants) from parts of the world such
as
> sub-Saharan Africa, where malaria is or was common, but it also occurs
in
> people of other ethnicities." Wikipedia.
>
> In the days when medicine was more primitive, a doctor might have
properly=

> used someone's skin color as part of the diagnosis process because the
> disease is transmitted genetically. Today a competent doctor will reject
t=
he
> guess work inevitably involved with skin color and conduct appropriate
tes=
ts.
> "Abnormal haemoglobin forms can be detected on haemoglobin
electrophoresis=
, a
> form of gel electrophoresis on which the various types of haemoglobin
move=
 at
> varying speed. Sickle-cell haemoglobin (HgbS) and haemoglobin C with
sickl=
ing
> (HgbSC)=8Bthe two most common forms=8Bcan be identified from there. The
di=
agnosis
> can be confirmed with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
Genet=
ic
> testing is rarely performed, as other investigations are highly specific
f=
or
> HbS and HbC." wikipedia.
>
> In other words, a doctor who gives or withhold a medicine on the basis
of
> skin color is, generally speaking, a quack.
>

Explain this then. A 45 year old black versus a 45 year old non-black.
Should the doctor give the same drug for those two patients?

     http://i30.tinypic.com/200fqt4.jpg


> --
> Love, Jim
> (I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
> crossposts.)
>
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