EMS care in rural areas of the United States has suffered from being chronically under-resourced and understaffed.

In prehospital settings, clinicians make difficult decisions that need to be made quickly and be within their scope of practice and skill set.

Dr Siân Lewis-Bevan joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Stephen Powell: “What Might the Past Suggest About Rural Emergency Services Amidst Critical Access Hospitals’ Decline?”

This article investigates roles of storytelling in human evolution and how sharing stories informs embodied experiences.

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

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.

One driver of the corporatization of medicine has been private equity firms’ acquisitions of physician practices.

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.

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

Dr Ryan C. McDevitt joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Ambar La Forgia: “How Should We Assess Quality of Health Care Services in Organizations Owned by Private Equity Firms?”