I came of age during the 1980s at the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, our news, talk shows, and conversations were steeped in fear, othering, and shame about folks ...

I once received a sign-out on a patient from the emergency department for a well-appearing young child who was admitted for a urinary tract infection. Normally, a simple urinary tract infection does ...

Cultural competence has become a major issue in nursing practice, given the current and projected US demographics as well as the long-standing health disparities in people of diverse racial, ethnic, ...

This approach to communication is explained, along with strategies for practicing the approach when treating patients from these communities. Every ethnic and racial group in the country is affected ...

Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG, a distinguished infertility specialist, highlights the pivotal role of cultural humility, diversity, acknowledgment of historical injustices, and collective action ...

Jay Carmona was 12 years old when he experienced his first anxiety attack. He was given Xanax after his mother took him to the hospital. Following a second attack, hospital tests detected both ...

Relevant beyond health care, cultural humility can more appropriately be thought of as a basic approach toward others; an approach that would be helpful on both sides of the current social dialogue.

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Collection title: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Diversity Equity Accessibility and Inclusion (DEAI) Collection. DSI Foreword by Mark A.

I’ve just watched a 90-minute recorded Zoom call among a bunch of Baylor University faculty and staff. Here’s what it was titled: “NSE” means New Student Experience. It’s a program at the university ...

IT was Matthew Arnold, read and reverenced by the generation immediately preceding our own, who set to our eyes a definition and a goal of culture which has become the common property of all our world ...