In prehospital settings, clinicians make difficult decisions that need to be made quickly and be within their scope of practice and skill set.

Recent rural hospital closures influence clinical and ethical dimensions of emergency care.

Assessing and adequately documenting a patient’s decision-making capacity is a responsibility and skill required of all EMS personnel.

Cultural humility, cost-effectiveness, equity, and tribal sovereignty are key to improving EMS responsiveness in AI/NA rural communities.

Ethics and science inform EMTs’ and paramedics’ decisions to initiate, continue, or terminate resuscitation.

Situational awareness means that good care might not only be about the patient.

EMS care in rural areas of the United States has suffered from being chronically under-resourced and understaffed.

Barriers to maintaining EMS in rural areas include personnel shortages, long travel times, and austere settings.

This article considers how the concept of embodiment is used in performing arts to promote mind-body integration, kinesthetic empathy, and trust.

This article introduces psychogeography as a research method that relies on embodied practices of drifting through a city and creative cartography.