Ian Wolfe, Bryanna Moore, Lynn Bush, Angela Knackstedt, Sabrina Derrington, K Sarah Hoehn, Liza-Marie Johnson, Sarah Porter, Amy Caruso Brown
Pediatric ethicists hold a privileged position of influence within health care institutions. Such a position confers a corresponding responsibility to address barriers to the health and flourishing of all children. A major barrier to children's health is racism. Pediatric ethicists can, and should, leverage their position to address racism both in institutional policy and the provision of pediatric care. Health care's historical and continued contributions to fostering and sustaining racist values and systems mean that those within all medical fields- regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, or profession-should consider ways they can work to offset and ultimately dismantle those values and systems...
September 1, 2023: Pediatrics