Dr Mark C. Henderson joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Charlene Green and Candice Chen: “What Does It Mean for Medical School Admissions to Be Socially Accountable?”

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

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

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

Medical education that omits critical discourse about racism perpetuates racism.

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

Critical race theory tools of evaluating stock characters and counter stories can help clinicians and researchers illuminate experiences of those at the margins.

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

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

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