“Very important persons” care contributes to multitiered, racially segregated health service delivery streams that influence clinicians’ conceptions of what patients deserve from them.

This article considers 1990s and 2000s-era civil rights complaints in NYC and offers legal strategies for scaling health outcomes improvement nationwide.

What is health care for? Recovery strategies, techniques for becoming calm, and reminders about why stillness matters can help us find a few answers.

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

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

Meditation on images of corporeal suffering were once part of a “spiritual ordeal” that can still provoke a kind of transformation key to health professionalism.

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

The concept of mortal time is useful for exploring how hospice care frameworks might help nonhospice clinicians find calm 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?