Cultural competence now mainstream medicine. Responding to increasing diversity and changing demographics.
When I first wrote on this topic for POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE in a 2002 guest editorial, I began by expressing my sadness, but not surprise, at recent Institute of Medicine findings that racial and ethnic minority patients receive inferior healthcare, even when their income and insurance status are the same as those of white patients.
Cole
Patricia M
PM
Family Practice Residency Program, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55408, USA. colex005@hotmail.com
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