Last week, I took on the subject of humility, mostly by railing against what humility is not. I said humility is not pretending to be unaware of one's strengths and talents, nor is it restraining ...

The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we ...

The first time I remember hearing about “cultural humility” was some years ago when I served as a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Team at Big Bend Hospice. I recall reading an article by Silvia ...

I made a new friend recently: Dr. Kari Konkola. He has a doctoral degree in history and has spent a long time examining what are called Confessors' Manuals, which are medieval Latin texts by Christian ...

Cultural competency is not enough for palliative medicine to build trust and offer good deaths to all, write Jamilla Akhter Hussain , Rekha Vijayshankar , and Mary Hodgson Death, dying, and grief are ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jen Cole Wright, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) The default psychological ...