AMA Journal of Ethics^®

The model minority myth has far-reaching implications for Asian Americans in many settings, including medicine.

Respecting patient autonomy while seeking to understand patients’ unique perspectives can strengthen patient-surgeon relationships.

Pediatricians have obligations to find causes of children’s stress and respond with care to their clinical and social vulnerabilities.

Clinicians must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider’s perspective on past and present life.

Force is codified in law, so force utilization inequity demands that we consider connections between systemic oppression and individuals’ responses in clinical settings.

The opioid crisis, maternal death, and COVID-19 underscore trust as foundational to public health and call for redefinition of what it means to be a US clinician.

The Flexner Report marginalized schools that produce more than their fair share of physicians confronting inequities in US responses to COVID-19.

The health status of the US population remains poor when compared to that of similar nations. There are lessons for us from Cuba.

Would you question health decisions made by a 37-year old Black woman whose great-grandfather died in the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee?

As health professionals, DACA recipients increase diversity in the health care work force and are well positioned to promote health equity.