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.

Some refugees’ illness experiences preclude them from testifying and accurately representing their own interests during asylum adjudication proceedings.

Behaviorally induced insufficient sleep syndrome can exacerbate morning side effects of prescription sleep aids, and there are potentially serious long-term risks.

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

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

Poor-quality antimicrobial medicines continue to proliferate across supply chains, threatening patients’ health and safety, especially in low- and middle-income regions.

High-resolution geographic information system tools map all general dentistry and periodontal practice locations as key sources of health inequity.

Telesurgery is a form of global health diplomacy, and negotiations between LMICs and HICs can have transnational consequences.

Recent increases in the frequency of shortages require more rationing by clinicians.

Reliable supply of quality-assured medicines is hard to maintain in refugee camps in low- and middle-income countries with conflict zones.