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.’
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Health equity work: We have to start with ourselves and recognize that we all hold ‘isms.’
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Health Equity work is like a spiritual calling for me.
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Gravitating towards the familiar in identity: “As clinicians, we may not even recognize that we’re treating these two families different.”
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“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.”
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