Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • Preface
  • Introduction: My Fellow Humans
  • 1. It Takes a Village: Memphis
  • 2. Scrub Nurse
  • 3. Becoming a Doctor: Stanford
  • 4. Becoming a Surgeon: Yale
  • 5. Combat Surgeon: Death and Our Common Humanity
  • 6. Getting toward Equal: Sweden
  • 7. A Man Ain't Nothin' but a Man
  • 8. Orthopedic Chief: Harvard
  • 9. Diagnosis and Treatment: The Subconscious at Work
  • 10. Health- Care Disparities: Race
  • 11. Health- Care Disparities: Women, Hispanics, Elderly, Gay
  • 12. Culturally Competent Care
  • Epilogue
  • Some Practical Suggestions for Patients and Physicians
  • National Standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index