[Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 28 Jun 2023 to 29 Jun 2023 (#2023-152)

[Amy West]

On 6/30/23 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:26:54 -0400
> From:    Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: ethnicity
>
> The patients' information form at my doctor's office includes the following
> categories of choice:
>
> RACE_____________   ETHNICITY:  [] Hispanic  [] Non-Hispanic  [] none.

Yep. You can thank the government for that brilliant classification 
system. Except the "none": that's not their fault. I think that's the 
doctor's office own "innovation." And it's interesting that the Race 
field is just a blank without the usual limiting choices.

---Amy

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