A case that illustrates how Western medicine's body or mind approach to diagnosis and treatment can differ from that of many patients from non-Western cultures.
There are medical, legal, and ethical reasons for supporting language access for less proficient speakers of English who enter the US health system. Article describes policy and regulations that attempt to redress inadequacies in the system.
Physicians can ethically withhold information in situations where full disclosure of a diagnosis or treatment would cause great psychological harm to the patient.
A physician advocate who has taken public advocacy stances against the federal government while employed by the government talks about the conflicts that arise between medicine and politics.