TY - JOUR T1 - Achieving racial harmony for the benefit of patients and communities: Contrition, reconciliation, and collaboration AU - Davis RM Y1 - 2008/07/16 N1 - 10.1001/jama.300.3.323 JO - JAMA SP - 323 EP - 325 VL - 300 IS - 3 N2 - Several proclamations that undergird the medical profession speak to the primacy of equality. The “Prayer of Maimonides,”1- 2 which first appeared in print in 1783 and is recited by many new medical graduates,3 asks God to preserve the strength of the physician's body and soul so that “they ever be ready to cheerfully help and support rich and poor, good and bad, enemy as well as friend. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.”1 SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.300.3.323 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.300.3.323 ER -