AMA Journal of Ethics^®

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

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

Sources of patient demand are also sources of light pollution that compromise rest.

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

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

Loneliness is linked to health problems and is comorbid with authoritarian politics.

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

What did a hospitalist physician learn from a patient about how to slow down?

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

Forever a Work in Progress visually explores complexities of isolation as one consequence of navigating a culturally hyphenated identity.