Decisions about where and to whose professional stewardship patients are admitted are influenced by federal policies of which physicians might not be aware.

This commentary on a case considers whether and to what extent refusal to care for patients insured by Medicare is a form of turfing.

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

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

Growing familiarity with health risks of loneliness and isolation highlight the importance of social connection in lived environments and communities.

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

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

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

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

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