A physician discusses potential factors underlying disparities in health care and health outcomes and advocates for standards to improve cultural competence, improve health literacy, and reduce disparities.
An ethical case explores whether a physician who wants to terminate his professional relationship with a noncompliant hemodialysis patient has an obligation to treat the patient if the patient has a disability.
Readers are referred to an article by Reg Green in a 1995 issue of JAMA to consider the experience of health care from the patient's perspective as told by the father of an organ donor.