Regarding Dr. Brill's excellent clinical summary on urethritis in men, I would like to add two important points from a public health perspective. First, the article appropriately made note of the serious racial disparities in gonorrheal and chlamydial infection rates in the United States. However, to help prevent inappropriate and even hurtful race-based assumptions about their patients, physicians must understand the implications of applying this observation to clinical practice.
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