"Cultural competency has been a wonderful movement in healthcare to take in cultural considerations in clinical ... comes to the difficulty of having end-of-life conversations, "could we ...

While medical educators in the United States strongly favor disclosing such information to patients, residents often struggle when that policy conflicts with a patient’s cultural traditions.

“Unfortunately, however, most studies on palliative and end-of-life care have not included discussions of cultural differences between Latino and white patients and families. As a result, we don’t ...

These are just two of the situations future health care professionals at the University of Nevada, Reno were asked to ponder at last month's "Considerations ... medicine, cultural humility in working ...

Editorial Comment: End-of-Life Decision-Making: Special Considerations in the COPD Patient I am board-certified both in emergency medicine and in hospice and palliative care. In both of these ...