Deficit-focused interventions undermine appreciation of the value students and physicians with minoritized identities bring to medicine’s capacity to motivate equity.
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Patients’ cultural, religious, and social norms deserve respect, but some decisions’ effects on patients’ outcomes can be unjust and ethically troubling.
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