To improve health outcomes, clinicians must move quickly yet operate slowly enough to center empathy in practice.

How should clinicians cultivate relationships with technology so it functions in solidarity with patients?

How should clinical environments bolster both empathy and calm socially, not just individually, to build solidarity and make space for care?

There are a few reasons why incentivizing clinicians to spend more time with patients can improve health outcomes.

Most physicians schedule out months in advance, requiring their patients to cope with their condition until their appointment and risk their suffering becoming discredited.

Medicine has been defined by doing, but bias, error, and burnout are potential consequences of speed and constant activity.

Patients experiencing homelessness and mental illness face conditions and circumstances that deserve focused ethical and clinical attention.

In health care, costs can come across like “market priced” items on menus in upscale restaurants.

This article applies principlism to what a “shoppable service” model would demand of clinicians in practice.

Accurate information about what health services will cost patients is often not available at key decision points, yet surprisingly high bills can undermine public trust in clinicians and organizations.