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Moral Injury and Hidden Squeezes with Dr. Gita Balakumar
When a healthcare system demands absolute perfection but offers zero grace when you are hurting, clinicians experience something far deeper than simple burnout. They experience moral injury. In this episode of The Hidden Load, Dr. Santina Wheat sits down with Dr. Gita Balakumar, a pediatrician with 20 years of clinical experience and the founder of Dragonfly Coaching MD, to discuss what happens when a dedicated clinician hits the institutional wall.
Dr. Balakumar shares a striking personal account of being forced to maintain a full productivity schedule on a scooter and crutches following an…
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