Zachary J. Gallin joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Emily L. Xu: “Private Equity Strategies in Nonprofit Health Care.”

This article explains how some investment practices of private equity firms generate profit by taking advantage of inequitably underserved patients in the US health care system. 

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

Surgeons have important legal and ethical obligations to patients who are incarcerated and accompanied by carceral facility personnel.

Most surgical inpatients who are incarcerated are not permitted to have visitors while hospitalized.

Kala T. Pham joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Rachel W. Davis: “Ethics of Learning Surgical Autonomy in Safety-Net Hospital Systems With Patients Who Are Incarcerated.”

This article considers AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions relevant to the care of patients who are incarcerated.

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

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Foundations of Carceral Health Care Came From a Right to Sue.”

Incarceration history adds to the clinical and ethical complexity of surgical care for patients who require an ostomy, especially when secondary to trauma.