AMA Journal of Ethics

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected patients of color and illuminates long-standing inequity in health status, health outcomes, and access to health care. Maldistribution of burden of disease, risk exposure, and how vulnerable we and those among us are to our lives unraveling is not merely unfortunate, not simply due to a bad turn of the cosmic wheel, but unjust, as illustrated in this digital self-portrait.

Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity.

Antiracism practices in museums inform how clinicians can orient themselves to their professions’ roles in the Holocaust.

American visual and narrative representations of Native experiences suggest an obligation to look on 19th-century White American artists’ romanticizations of those experiences with humility.

Clinicians must advocate for decriminalization of SUDs during pregnancy and for improving access to comprehensive, evidence-based care.

“Race” is a product of European-American views of phenotypic and cultural differences and continues to influence Native health decision making.

Dr Jennifer Ho talks about understanding and combatting the spread of Anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Ibram Kendi talks about the impact of racist policies on historically discriminated-against groups and what it means to be an antiracist.

Modern surgeons are diverse, socially adept, and differ in other important ways from the stereotype of a technically gifted white male with poor bedside manner.