For decades, American medicine addressed some of its most persistent problems -- racial, geographic, and economic inequities in health outcomes, unequal treatment, mistrust -- by focusing on the ...

A guest column by Dr. Jonathan Metzl, the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University Several ...

A major U.S. accreditation group — the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) — has removed language from its standards that had urged medical schools to teach about health inequities. The ...

Future doctors may no longer be required to learn about how social and economic factors affect health. A major U.S. accreditation group—the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)—has removed ...

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