Private equity (PE) firms’ acquisition and management of health service delivery entities, such as specialty physicians’ practices, have been associated with increased cost and diminished quality of care. This commentary on a case argues that clinician-sellers have obligations to disclose…
Private equity firms exacerbate health inequity by driving hospital closures in historically underserved communities. Now nonprofit health systems seem to be adopting private equity practices to do the same. Drawing on a case study of one nonprofit hospital system that…
As private equity (PE) funds acquire a growing share of America’s health care system, their focus has expanded to include not only hospitals and nursing homes but also physician practices. Some PE acquisitions have infused much-needed capital into resource-starved entities,…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about what clinicians and other health professionals should know about embodiment. The featured guest is Christine Slobogin, PhD an assistant professor…
This article introduces psychogeography as a research method that relies on embodied practices of drifting (dÈrive) through a city, which are followed by subsequent creative cartography. Mapping and documentation that follow dÈrive promote fuller understanding of persons’ patterns of embodying…
This article investigates the importance of storytelling for human well-being. Special attention is given to the roles storytelling has played in human evolution, how sharing stories informs embodied experiences, and the role of storytelling within medicine to promote health.
This article considers how the concept of embodiment is used in artistic practices to promote mind-body integration, kinesthetic empathy, and trust, each of which can be drawn upon to strengthen patient-clinician relationships. This article also offers examples from the world…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about time as a critical resource for rural emergency medical service workers. The featured guest is Representative Eric Emery, a paramedic,…
Critical access and other rural hospitals have struggled to remain open, which exacerbates inequity in rural residents’ access to routine and emergency health services and strains already-taxed rural emergency medical services (EMS). This article discusses the recent history of rural…
Emergency medical services (EMS) care in rural areas of the United States has suffered from being chronically under-resourced and understaffed for many years. Deficits, to a large extent, are due to how EMS is funded and due to shortfalls in…
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