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

Through the lens of metaphor and the arts, this article aims to illuminate how persons who are ill tarry through uncertainty to receive care.

Safe discharge planning and execution require linkage to follow-up, patient engagement, and multidisciplinary teamwork.

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

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

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

Health consequences of social isolation and loneliness include worse morbidity and mortality, and “social prescribing” is one way to intervene.

Dr Elena Portacolone joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Daisy Elise Feddoes: “Should Artificial Intelligence Play a Role in Cultivating Social Connections Among Older Adults?”

Dr Amy E. Wendling joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “On Health and Loneliness.” 

Julia Bhuiyan joins Ethics Talk to discuss her painting: “Forever a Work in Progress.”