More cesarean deliveries among Black and Hispanic women in the United States has long demonstrated racial inequity in obstetrical care.

Patients’ adherence to recommendations can unjustly influence their candidacy for a current intervention.

Violence perpetrated against unarmed patients is common in health care, and evidence-based safety measures are needed to acknowledge and eradicate clinical violence.

Authors propose improvisational theater techniques for tighter medical/dental integration.

Anti-Blackness as articulated by law enforcement and other state institutions does not happen on its own or in isolation but is often given life and legitimacy through partnerships with medicine.

Health professions educators should reform pedagogy on race, when clinically relevant, to emphasize racism as the root cause of health inequity.

In 2020, the authors of this article published “Abolition Medicine” as one contribution to international abolitionist conversations responding to widespread anti-Black police violence and inequity laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world.

Medicine has always maintained social, political, and economic structures that have exacerbated Black and Brown persons’ lived embodiment of racism.

Abundant evidence demonstrates that enduring, endemic racism plays an important role in determining patient health.