The arts of medicine: for those in the healing field, knowing their patients requires more than the natural sciences. From the article:

“[T]oday’s medical curriculum teaches new doctors about culture and communication. It is no longer good enough – and probably never was – for a doctor to simply know the appropriate medication to prescribe or diagnostic test to order.

Physicians must also fully understand social constructs such as class, gender and race, explicit and implicit, that mold both how they make medical decisions and how, in turn, patients receive their care. We all know the most science-smart physicians will fail their patients if they aren’t effective communicators with a sense of cultural humility.”

h/t Robert Townshend