Navigating Healthcare During Ramadan: A Guide for Clinicians
Developing cultural competency is essential for providing effective and empathic patient care. For...
Alexander Green, MD, MPH
Dr. Alexander Green is Co-Founder of Quality Interactions, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Investigator in the Division of General Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The Impact of Health Literacy on Health Disparities
Healthcare professionals are notorious for throwing around complex medical concepts and jargon that...
Language Access Plans for Healthcare Organizations
Until recently, many hospitals and healthcare organizations lacked formal interpreter services for...
How To Build Patient Trust in Healthcare
Relationships between patients and healthcare professionals are based on the same qualities...
Cultural Barriers in Healthcare & Communication Techniques to Explore Them
Culture shapes almost every aspect of our lives, including our beliefs, customs, and daily...
Explaining Cultural Competence vs Cultural Awareness
Cultural competence is a term that has been in use since the 1980s to describe the ability of...
Culturally Competent Care in Telemedicine [Checklist]
Telemedicine has the potential to reshape the delivery of healthcare and improve health equity....
Cultural Competency and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable among us. This includes...
Cultural Awareness in Healthcare: A Checklist
Culture is a complex concept. It includes people’s beliefs, values, behaviors, and ways of...
Border Walls: Cultural Competency and Considerations for the Hispanic/Latino Population
Culture has a profound impact on healthcare decision-making for Latino individuals and families....
The Time Objection: Cross-Cultural Care and the Ever-Shortening Office Visit
I've given hundreds of presentations on culturally-competent care to busy clinicians around the...
3 Simple Ways to Alleviate Patient Mistrust
Trust in the healthcare system is at an all-time low—only 34% of Americans have “great confidence”...