In last week's blog post, I wrote a line that's been stuck in my mind: "Shame, the ever-present companion of medical culture, once again getting in the way of an honest conversation." Shame wasn't the ...

The distress that Will Bynum later recognized as shame settled over him nearly immediately. Bynum, then in his second year of residency training as a family medicine physician, was wrapping up a long ...

In stigmatized illnesses such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), shame and other negative self-conscious emotions are associated with suboptimal engagement in health care via stress and avoidance ...