AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Practices of sorting patients into different tracks of care within a facility or system by insurance status, race, and other social markers persist.

Traditional models of medical education in the US do not teach students to problematize segregation where they train and help care for patients. 

Clinical needs of patients with disabilities are seen with the “medical gaze,” a depersonalized lens of evidence-based medicine and of presumed objectivity.

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

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

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

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

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.

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