If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First

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Through stories and solutions, leading physicians tackle the conundrum of how best to care for patients while being thwarted by the business side of healthcareMoves "away from calling doctors&’ difficulties 'burnout' — thus blaming doctors — to 'moral injury' — like soldiers floundering under unjust orders. A brilliant expansive book.&” — Samuel Shem, Professor in Medicine at NYU Medical School, author of The House of God and Man's 4th Best Hospital&“Wendy Dean diagnoses the dangerous state of our healthcare system, illustrating the thumbscrews applied to medical professionals by their corporate overlords… Required reading for all stakeholders in healthcare.&” — Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of When We Do Harm; A Doctor Confronts Medical ErrorOffering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words 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.Doctors face real risks when they stand up for their patients and their oath; they may lose their license, their livelihood, and for some, even their lives.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.If I Betray These Words 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. We need better healthcare—for patients and for the workforce. It&’s time to act.
Copyright:
2023

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ISBN-13:
9781586423551
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9781586423544
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Steerforth Press
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Wendy Dean
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Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies, Medicine
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