Increasing focus on health equity is placing a spotlight on health professionals’ roles. Recent public health crises the opioid epidemic, maternal mortality, and the COVID-19 pandemic have renewed focus on racial and ethnic inequity and underscored that trust is foundational…
The United States has not yet decided to ensure that every citizen has access to health care services at reasonable cost. The United States spends more on health care than any other country by far. Yet the health status of…
Eliminating racial inequity in health outcomes has historically been complicated by a lack of clear methods to quantify the problems and study interventions’ effects. Health care organizations’ investment in electronic health record systems for millions of patients, however, presents opportunities…
This commentary on a case considers balancing prospective benefits and harms of robotic technology use and argues that health care organizations should invest in centralizing robotic expertise in departments rather than having a mere collection of surgeons trained in robotics….
Globally, barriers to the widespread adoption of robotic surgery have worsened existing inequities in surgical care between low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs). This article advocates for the creation of sustainable robotic surgery programs in LMICs…
Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted robotic surgery seems to offer promise for improving patients’ outcomes and innovating surgical care. This commentary on a hypothetical case considers ethical questions that AI-facilitated surgical robotics pose for patient safety, patient autonomy, confidentiality and privacy, informed…
Racial essentialism the belief that socially constructed racial categories reflect “inherent” biological differences exacerbates learners’ racial prejudice and diminishes their empathy. Essentialism hinders health professions education programs’ capacity to generate a health care work force that motivates ethics and equity…
America faces widespread gun violence and police brutality against Black citizens and persons with severe mental illness (SMI). Violence perpetrated against unarmed patients is common in health care, and evidence-based safety measures are needed to acknowledge and eradicate clinical violence….
Medical education is limited to the biomedical model, omitting critical discourse about racism, the harm it causes minoritized patients, and medicine’s foundation and complicity in perpetuating racism. Against a backdrop of historical resistance from medical education leadership, medical students’ advocacy…
When patients look for strategies to improve their overall health, diet and nutrition are often a logical place to start after all, what we consume has enormous impact on our susceptibility to disease and disability. But health care professionals don’t…
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