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 ...

In the early 2000s, while I was working as a curriculum designer, cultural competency specialist, trainer, and coach to support HIV/AIDS peer educators (most of whom were themselves living with ...

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 ...

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 ...

A presentation during the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting addressed end-of-life care and how it is influenced by patient spirituality. One education session titled “Knowing ...

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 ...

Clinicians in the United States and elsewhere are treating an increasingly diverse patient population, so in addition to learning about the science of medicine, young doctors and residents need to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An understanding of patients’ cultural and historical health care beliefs can promote equity in cancer ...

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 ...

This training will be a discussion on better understanding one's own personal values and beliefs and their relationship to cultural identity and practice. The training begins by asking participants to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The digitally-based academy, intended for young children, is offering a new feature to teach diversity, equity, and inclusion ...

This month marks the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a gay-liberation effort that took place over several days in New York beginning on June 28, 1969. What began as a bold and brave public ...