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

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. 

As private equity funds acquire a growing share of America’s health care system, their focus has expanded from hospitals and nursing homes to physician practices.

Dr Robert I. Field joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “Can Current Legal Tools Respond Adequately to Risks of Private Equity Investment in Health Care?”

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

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

The first cells of this multi-panel comic represent the artist’s personal experiences of testing positive for and enduring COVID-19 in January 2024.

Teddie Bernard joins Ethics Talk to discuss their comic: A Comic About COVID-19 in 2024.

Office-based gynecologic procedures are reimbursed at lower rates than similar office urology and dermatology procedures.