If I betray these words : moral injury in medicine and why it's so hard for clinicians to put patients first
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-287).

Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, Dean profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system. There's a growing sense, referred to as moral injury, that doctors have their hands tied - they know what patients need but can't get it for them because of constraints imposed by healthcare systems run like big businesses. Workforce distress in healthcare--moral injury--was a crisis long before the COVID-19 pandemic, but COVID highlighted the vulnerabilities in our healthcare systems and made it impossible to ignore the distress, with 1 in 5 American healthcare workers leaving the profession since 2020, and up to 47% of U.S. healthcare workers now planning to leave their positions by 2025. This volume confronts the threat and broken promises of moral injury - what it is; where it comes from; how it manifests; and who's fighting back against it. --From publisher's description.