Asa Hilliard stated, “Cultural competence is a prerequisite for professional competence”. Throughout the 1990s the acquisition of cultural competence focused on three main areas: knowledge, awareness, ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that our world is a mosaic of diverse cultures, each with its own unique set of beliefs, values, and traditions. However, it is not uncommon for people to ...

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 ...

The ability to provide therapeutic services online has drastically changed the therapy landscape and the demand for digital solutions has continued to grow rapidly in the context of the COVID-19 ...

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.

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 ...

Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks: Thanks for family, for good health and for … Thanksgiving Day shopping? Uh, no thanks on that last one. Thanksgiving, sadly, is becoming the forgotten holiday, ...

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 ...

In the summer of 2016, I was in a cab in Yokohama, Japan, trying to use the few Japanese phrases I know. The Japanese cab driver must have detected from my accent that I was an American. He asked me ...