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State-of-the-art health equity training for medical, nursing, social work students, and others must facilitate greater tactile understanding of patients' and clients' lived experiences. Medical, nursing, social work, and public health communities have special responsibilities to exercise such vigilance, given the severe health consequences of cruelty. Shklar understood that persistent cruelty more frequently results from the failure of bystanders to intervene, what Dr. King rightly called "the appalling silence of the good people", than it does from the outright evils committed by the few.[4],[7] To be serious about eradicating cruelty, we must all use our personal agency to address structural racism and other systems of oppression. [Extracted from the article] |
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