This article summarizes AMA Code of Medical Ethics' guidance about patient transfer practices and discharge planning.

This manuscript canvasses clinical, legal, and ethical dimensions of turfing and dumping that deserve investigation.

This visual abstract is based on an article from the July 2023 issue of the journal.

Decisions about where and to whose professional stewardship patients are admitted are influenced by federal policies of which physicians might not be aware.

This commentary on a case considers whether and to what extent refusal to care for patients insured by Medicare is a form of turfing.

Growing familiarity with health risks of loneliness and isolation highlight the importance of social connection in lived environments and communities.

AI technology can be implemented to avoid the drawback of diminishing social connections. 

Loneliness is an endemic experience of immigrants to the United States that could be mitigated by cultural brokerage practices in clinical settings. 

Individualistic approaches to the collective problem of climate change are ethically inadequate. 

Health consequences of social isolation and loneliness include worse morbidity and mortality, and “social prescribing” is one way to intervene.