Defining typical appearance as a goal of health service provision is harmful and unnecessary for traits that are stigmatized but neither harmful nor distressing.

Health professions education continues to emphasize team-based approaches to improving mutual respect and cultivating trust.

An emerging and important goal of health professions training is to develop a workforce equipped to address structural determinants of patients’ health.

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.

Antimicrobial resistance is a looming pandemic, and poor health outcomes will not be borne equitably.

The communication training program at University of Washington Medical Center aims to develop best practices for effective pathology communication.