All guidelines in the NGC have included a systematic literature search and review of existing evidence published in peer-reviewed journals. B. Kamerow, MD, MPH Director, Center for Practice and Technology Assessment, Rockville, Md. Back to top. Heart surgeon Michael Petracek, MD, of Nashville, Tenn., was wrong to agree with his patient's demand to bar black male staff from the operating room, and he was correct to apologize. To agree to participate in racist or other clearly immoral practices at the request of a patient cannot be excused, regardless of the degree of pressure the patient or family imposes on the physician.
Racism is wrong.
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