This comic shares a true story of a physician’s fraught interaction with and physical examination of a patient.

Unchallenged supra-geographic segregation perpetuates racial medical mythology, exacerbates myopia in health professions practice and education, and perpetuates injustice.

Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout.

Following evidence-based approaches to evaluating and reporting suspicion of child maltreatment can help minimize bias and promote equity.

A novel curriculum focused on racial trauma was implemented at Yale for medical, physician associate, and advanced practice nursing students.

Biases rooted in historically entrenched assumptions about medical supremacy are reified in popular cultural representations of health professionals and in students’ lived experiences.

Size-based health and beauty ideals emanated from eugenic pseudoscientific postulates, and BMI continues to advance white supremacist embodiment norms. 

Technology-dependent inpatients are commonly turfed, either between general services or from subspecialty to general services.

Constraints on hospitalists and surgeons and restricted orthopedic admission criteria can exacerbate patients’ distress that comes from clinicians’ disagreements.

Lack of disability-competent health care contributes to inequitable health outcomes for persons with disabilities, the largest minoritized population in the world.