Ethical obligations to address racial health inequity in American life exist now, just as they did in 1865.

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

Clinicians must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider’s perspective on past and present life.

Tribal-university partnerships are fewer in education than in research, but just as important for expanding opportunity and improving health infrastructure.

Native Americans suffer poverty and significant health inequity and are chronically underrepresented in the clinician workforce.

When a parent resists a physician's recommendation for a pediatric patient, physician-parent partnering can promote the patient's best interest and help encourage lifestyle changes.

When patients cannot give informed consent or refusal for antipsychotic medication, physicians must meet specific criteria to justify temporarily withholding a diagnosis.

This image aims to promote reflection about patients’ feelings of sadness, despair, helplessness, and uncertainty upon being diagnosed.

During one 2014 Ebola epidemic, arrival of “safe burial” teams was often delayed. Some buried their loved ones themselves, which undermined containment efforts.

A patient’s story represents an ethical dilemma of cancer screening: it can save lives but generates diagnostic morbidity and incurs costs.