The communication training program at University of Washington Medical Center aims to develop best practices for effective pathology communication.

When a patient is incompetent and unrepresented, alternative strategies must be implemented to document and try to rectify an error.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

As machine learning becomes increasingly common in health care, these systems’ data, algorithms, and recommendations raise critical justice questions.

Many medical schools are associated with a free clinic. Students who speak and learn Spanish can help fill this gap.

When errors happen, too often clinicians are at odds with each other about how to respond to a patient or a patient’s loved ones after that patient suffers harm.

Limited understanding of disease etiology often leads to resistance, which can result in low vaccine uptake.

In US health care, language and linguistic difference are often conceived in discrete, instrumental, and monolithic terms.

Underrepresentation of individuals with limited English proficiency who speak Spanish is ongoing in phase 3 biomedical clinical trials and exacerbates health inequity.

Alternatives to suing could help open communication between injured patients and clinicians.