Raciolinguistic hierarchies can undermine the quality of Latinx patients’ health experiences.

Researchers and scholars should co-develop research with Indigenous peoples to ensure respect for culture, language, and ways of knowing.

Empathic communication skills help motivate understanding of safety, significance of harms, impact on succeeding generations, and social consequences.

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

Helping patients mitigate their risk of chronic disease is key, but dietary supplements are risky.

Dr Pilar Ortega joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Glenn Martínez, Marco A. Alemán, Alejandra Zapién-Hidalgo, and Tiffany M. Shin: “Recognizing and Dismantling Raciolinguistic Hierarchies in Latinx Health.”

Dr Lisa M. Lee joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Anita L. Allen: "How Should Clinicians Own Their Roles as Past and Present Exacerbators of Health Inequity and as Present and Future Contributors to Health Equity?”

This narrative illuminates need for students and clinicians to be well prepared to face ethically and structurally complex realities of identifying and responding to children.