D. Brendan Johnson, MTS and C. Phifer Nicholson Jr
Meditation on images of corporeal suffering were once part of a “spiritual ordeal” that can still provoke a kind of transformation key to health professionalism.
Historical perspective on how some sites and means of professional caregiving became high or low status helps us understand trends in poor care continuity in US health care.
Psychiatric aides and technicians are part of direct care workforces in inpatient units who are subject to high rates of violence but earn far less than higher-status clinicians.
Cultural failure to recognize tacit knowledge explains why credential-based knowledge has higher status and prioritizes clinicians who do not care on an hour-to-hour basis for most of our country’s elders.
Dr Emily Cleveland Manchanda joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Karthik Sivashanker, Steffie Kinglake, Emily Laflamme, Dr Vikas Saini, and Dr Aletha Maybank: “Training to Build Antiracist, Equitable Health Care Systems.”