This article summarizes AMA Code of Medical Ethics' guidance about patient transfer practices and discharge planning.

Turfing is a colloquialism that refers to what clinicians do to patients whose needs do not fit neatly and tidily into typical clinical placement protocols.

Constraints on hospitalists and surgeons and restricted orthopedic admission criteria can exacerbate patients’ distress that comes from clinicians’ disagreements.

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

Stopping turfing starts with clinicians and administrators having candid discussions about where and in whose care patients belong.

This manuscript canvasses clinical, legal, and ethical dimensions of turfing and dumping that deserve investigation.

Loneliness deserves attention from health policy, technology, and cultural standpoints, with critical analysis of how our built environments contribute to social isolation.  

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

Three digital drawings invite interpretations of a cornered figure’s orientations to space, color, and its own boundaries and self.  

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