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

This article introduces psychogeography as a research method that relies on embodied practices of drifting through a city and creative cartography.

Private equity firms’ acquisition and management of physicians’ practices have been associated with increased cost and diminished quality.

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

Dr Robert Field and Dr Yashaswini Singh join the AMA Journal of Ethics Grand Rounds series to discuss what patients and clinicians should know about private equity in health care.

Be cautious about drawing conclusions from a narrow sample of literature about private equity based on studies in one sector.

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.

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.

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