Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 12:01     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Ask them!! I really want to know why too
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:59     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Things like sickle cell or Tay Sachs?
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:57     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Racist. Not normal.

I would report this to the Chief Nurse/Chief of Quality, or a head of the ER.

-hospital administrator
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:56     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Just tell them your ancestors have been here so long you don’t even know.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:49     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Most medications have only been rigorously studied on White Western Europeans.

https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Konkel.pdf
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:24     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's about immigration. They may just be requiring that info just in case additional medical care is required, and they need to know quickly.


But I was here last month and they didn’t ask me these questions.

The two new questions that jumped out are:

1. What country were you born in?

2. What is your ancestry?
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:23     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
It’s immigration

Thank you MAGA your freedom is gone dummies
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:22     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Bone fracture rates vary https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1053932
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:19     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
I don't think it's about immigration. They may just be requiring that info just in case additional medical care is required, and they need to know quickly.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:14     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Anonymous wrote:Some diseases have well known genetic/ ancestry links. I don't click Hispanic on DEI type forms but do on medical ones since I am half Spanish and there are some linkages to cardiovascular diseases.


Right. But we are here for a sports injury/x-ray.

And I’ve been here as recently as last month for myself and they didn’t ask me these questions.

Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:13     Subject: Re:Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Anonymous wrote:ice waiting?


No, ICE isn’t here.

I’m wondering if it’s a new reg that hospitals must comply with…

As we were registering, I noticed a laminated chart on the desk with country codes. It included all countries and languages, and Wales jumped out (the list wasn’t in alpha order).
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:12     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Some diseases have well known genetic/ ancestry links. I don't click Hispanic on DEI type forms but do on medical ones since I am half Spanish and there are some linkages to cardiovascular diseases.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:07     Subject: Re:Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
ice waiting?
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:07     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Fwiw we’ve been in this er a number of times over the last 20 years and I don’t recall ever being asked where I was born or what my ancestry was.

Is this some new MAGA thing?

This is in MoCo btw.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2025 11:05     Subject: Why would the ER ask about your ancestry?
Just asked about my kid’s ancestry after they inquired about where he was born.

Kid was born in the US (so was I snd so was my husband).

All of us have very American names, do not speak with an accent, and do not appear to be anything other than American.

I know why your obgyn asks about ethnicity, but I have no idea why they would specifically inquire about ethnicity at the ER when you are there for a sports injury requiring an X-ray.

Any thoughts?