The culture of American medicine is a culture of contradictions. On the one hand, medical professionals are culturally predisposed to put the lives of patients ahead of their own, especially in times ...

Robert Pearl, physician-writer and former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group, recently published an important book, Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients. 1 Its message: A ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . I've been in the pursuit of becoming a physician ever since I can remember. Throughout the majority of this ...

Cancel culture has come to medicine. Dr. Scott Atlas, who was chairman of neuroradiology at Stanford’s medical school until 2012 and more recently a senior fellow at the university’s Hoover ...

Since the implementation of the 80-hour physician residency training work week in 2003 by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the medical community has debated whether or ...

The Medicine, Society, and Culture concentration of the Bioethics and Medical Humanities master’s degree is an interdisciplinary initiative designed to provide students the opportunity to explore ...

When I renewed my physician assistant license on the Oregon Medical Board (OMB) website last year, its questionnaire asked if I had participated in any “cultural-competence” training. Given that I had ...

As a second-year South Asian–American Muslim OB/GYN resident in training, I looked up through my scrub mask at the Caucasian female attending physician with whom I was operating as she asked this ...

In this course, premedical/dental and nursing students get exposed to medicine in a cross-cultural context in Nepal. In Nepal, students will learn to appreciate the influence of history, culture, ...