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Moral Injury Is Why The Best Doctors Are Disappearing with Dr. Wendy Dean
Dr. Wendy Dean is a psychiatrist, author, and the co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding and alleviating clinician distress. In 2018, she co-wrote a 500-word op-ed in STAT News that did something rare: it handed an entire profession the language for something most physicians had been carrying alone. The argument was simple and devastating.
Physicians aren't burning out.
That implies a personal failure of resilience. What's actually happening is moral injury, the damage that accumulates when you are repeatedly forced to act in ways that violate your…
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