Stopping turfing starts with clinicians and administrators having candid discussions about where and in whose care patients belong.

Through the lens of metaphor and the arts, this article aims to illuminate how persons who are ill tarry through uncertainty to receive care.

Safe discharge planning and execution require linkage to follow-up, patient engagement, and multidisciplinary teamwork.

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.

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

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

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

Research is needed to determine the direction of causality between loneliness and internet use.

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