Most of the time in USA when ethnicity is asked previously there used to be only Asian available to people coming from the South Asian countries. But now sometimes there is a separate column.
Many a time databases are created by software professionals and businesses without any forethought or planning and they keep on adding any number of fields are added without thinking about the consequences
and forms are created either using a large space for an small datum or using a very small space where you cannot enter or write the required information which basically goes to show that none of this information is ever used in a proper fashion. Once in a while somebody gets irked by the stupidity of the whole process and writes down something nonsensical on the form and most of the time this is not even looked at/
recently in Deccan Chronicle there was such a article about the hospital asking a patient's religion and one of the patients getting angry about this and writing on the form that it was none of their business and religion has got nothing to do with his treatment.
Many a time databases are created by software professionals and businesses without any forethought or planning and they keep on adding any number of fields are added without thinking about the consequences
and forms are created either using a large space for an small datum or using a very small space where you cannot enter or write the required information which basically goes to show that none of this information is ever used in a proper fashion. Once in a while somebody gets irked by the stupidity of the whole process and writes down something nonsensical on the form and most of the time this is not even looked at/
recently in Deccan Chronicle there was such a article about the hospital asking a patient's religion and one of the patients getting angry about this and writing on the form that it was none of their business and religion has got nothing to do with his treatment.
"The 'religion' column specified in the outpatient form of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) irked at least one patient. The person wrote on social media, “None of your business, nothing to do with my treatment.” The post sparked a debate.
Some found it unnecessary to ask about religion while others thought this could be part of a survey or demographic data. Also, there are certain sections who accept blood from donors belonging to their religion only."
I do not know where this reporter got this information from.
It's possible that he was confusing the Jehovah witnesses refusal to take blood transfusions and created this false belief that religion is required on blood bank forms.
I have been a physician for 34 years half of it in India as a surgeon and half of it in USA as an internist and I have never come across any dying patient willing to die rather than accept blood from a person of different religion. There are no rules or regulations which differentiate the donated blood by religion.
Sometimes the blood bank may allow the nation of one's own blood a few days before the patient's own elective surgery to be used under certain special circumstances and requests made by the patient.
Let us not start a new divisive element and already much divided country let us keep a close watch on such False and inaccurate information. It's really shameful that the editors of major Indian newspapers how abdicated their profession and let all kinds of people to write all kinds of useless and nonsensical information on their websites
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