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Shifting narratives in health care from resilience to redress and resistance

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Dominant narratives that describe the power of individual-level resilience underplay the long-lasting consequences of structural violence and perpetuate harms to historically marginalized patients and communities. It is time to update our approaches and narratives by addressing the root causes of inequities through redress and collective resistance to create the equitable conditions needed for communities to thrive.

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  1. Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, USA

    Karthik Sivashanker

  2. Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Karthik Sivashanker

  3. Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Cheri Couillard

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Sivashanker, K., Couillard, C. Shifting narratives in health care from resilience to redress and resistance. Nat Rev Nephrol 18, 269–270 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-022-00552-5

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