Arika Patneaude, MSW, LICSW
Director of Bioethics and Palliative Care
Seattle Children’s Hospital
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Health equity work: We have to start with ourselves and recognize that we all hold ‘isms.’
Health Equity work is like a spiritual calling for me.
Gravitating towards the familiar in identity: “As clinicians, we may not even recognize that we’re treating these two families different.”
“To do health equity work, we have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable… and that’s hard in systems where we’re expected to be experts.”
