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

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

All of us who are pursuing solutions to the obesity epidemic face clinical, ethical, and regulatory challenges. First among them is the significant role of individual lifestyle and behavior choices in causing obesity.

The implications of genetic explanations for behavioral traits such as violence and the public’s interpretations of them.

Physicians working in correctional systems face many ethical dilemmas and professional challenges in providing health care for incarcerated adolescents.

Film, television, radio, and other media fail to accurately portray the diversity among health care professionals and the patients they treat.