Harriet Washington talks about the devastating impact of environmental racism on the health and well-being of communities of color.

Indian classical dance illuminates a collaborative, narrative approach to interrogating ethnic and racial biases in clinical jargon and their roles in inequitable health care practice.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.

Patient-centered care means offering potentially beneficial interventions while avoiding retraumatizing a patient.

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

The model minority myth has far-reaching implications for Asian Americans in many settings, including medicine.

Pediatricians have obligations to find causes of children’s stress and respond with care to their clinical and social vulnerabilities.

Responding well means navigating ongoing grief, restoring self-community and human-ecological relationships, and generating cultural vibrancy.

Hyperfocus on measurability can result in evidentiary overreliance and undervaluation of patients’ experience narratives.

Invisibility of racial inequity and gender inclusion in clinical research means key features of disease etiology and symptom presentation are unaccounted for.