La adquisición y gestión de consultorios médicos por parte de empresas de capital privado se ha asociado con un aumento de los costos y una disminución de la calidad.

Be cautious about drawing conclusions from a narrow sample of literature about private equity based on studies in one sector.

Private equity investments in health care have grown to over $750 billion in the past decade and include every segment of the US health sector.

Private equity firms’ acquisition and management of physicians’ practices have been associated with increased cost and diminished quality.

Capital and staff shortages have forced many rural hospitals to close. Private equity investment in rural hospitals has been one solution to these problems.

Private equity firms exacerbate health inequity by driving hospital closures in historically underserved communities. Now nonprofit health systems are also vulnerable.

Dr Robert I. Field joins Ethics Talk to discuss whether and to what extent private equity firms’ increasing presence in health care deserves our scrutiny and what policy makers, clinicians, and patients should know about responding to private equity ownership stakes in the organizations where they work and where they go for health services.

Safety-net hospitals care for patients who are incarcerated and are key environments in which surgical trainees learn to wield their professional autonomy.

Lawyer Cynthia Chandler joins Ethics Talk to discuss the practice of sterilization in California state prisons, and Dr Anthony Loria shares new research on surgical outcomes for incarcerated patients.

Surgical research involving patients who are incarcerated is fraught with ethical, logistical, and practical questions.