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Federal Practitioner | Moral Injury in Health Care: A Unified Definition and its Relationship to Burnout
April 15, 2024 — In this month's issue of Federal Practitioner, our Co-founders Drs. Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot publish their latest paper, Moral Injury in Health Care: A Unified Definition and its Relationship to Burnout.
Rx for Success Podcast
April 8, 2024 — Our CEO Dr. Wendy Dean joined the Rx for Success podcast for an in-depth conversation with Dr. Randy Cook.
Schwartz Center Webinar | "Reframing Distress: Why Moral Injury Matters"
March 20, 2024 — Our CEO and co-founder Dr. Wendy Dean joined the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare for a special webinar, "Reframing Distress: Why Moral Injury Matters."
POLITICO Features Moral Injury of Healthcare
March 18, 2024 — POLITICO published a piece in its Future Pulse column entitled, “It’s not burnout, it’s moral injury.”
Cross-Government Inquiry, Webinar with our CEO, and HWWB Day
March 14, 2024 — Today, Moral Injury of Healthcare is pleased to share recent developments and upcoming events.
Moral Injury of Healthcare Endorses H.R. 7153
February 14, 2024 — This morning, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health will hold a legislative hearing titled "Legislative Proposals to Support Patients and Caregivers.”
"If I Betray These Words" Announced as Bronze Winner for 3rd Annual Anthem Awards
If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First is a Bronze Winner in the Book, Story, or Feature category for the 3rd Annual Anthem Awards.
Take EM Back Summit - Moral Injury and Losing a Profession
Wendy Dean, MD speaks on what the corporate practice of health care has done to the medical profession. What does this mean to us as professionals and physicians?
The Case Against Loving Your Job
This is a conversation about the dissonance between our expectations of what work can offer our lives and the reality of what our jobs and careers are capable of delivering; about whether work can ever really love us back. But there’s a bigger picture here, too. Workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers. Strikes are taking place across the country. In her role as a labor reporter, Jaffe has spent much of the past year interviewing workers across the country — spanning industries from retail to health care to tech — giving her insight into the shift in attitudes behind this uproar in the labor market. So that’s where we begin: Why are so many Americans radically rethinking work?
What's driving the pandemic's health care exodus
1 in 5 American health care workers have left the profession since the pandemic hit. The pandemic has pushed what was already a tough situation into crisis mode. And as psychiatrist Wendy Dean sees it, this is more than just burnout.
Financial Times: ‘I just feel broken’
Burnout and the burden of life-and-death decisions have driven some exhausted front-line staff to the edge. In this long-form piece by Financial Times writer India Ross, Dr. Wendy Dean lends her expertise as a psychiatrist and the framework of moral injury to contextualize the deep trauma facing healthcare workers today.
Psychology Today: The World in Trauma
The country of the United States is experiencing complex trauma. That trauma is silently influencing how we think, how we make decisions, and how we act in powerful ways that are predictable to experts in psychological trauma, but often obscure to those in the midst of it.
WebMD: Moral Injury: Pandemic’s Fallout for Health Care Workers
Originally used to describe what soldiers experience in wartime, moral injury in health care began to be applied to health care even before the pandemic, says Wendy Dean, MD, a psychiatrist and the president and co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare, a nonprofit devoted to reframe clinician distress as moral injury — and to work to improve the source of it, which she and others say is the health care system itself.
Medscape: Death by 1,000 Cuts
Burnout and depression are still serious problems among physicians, especially amid COVID-19. More than 12,000 physicians told us how burnout has affected their relationships, career, and happiness. Dr. Wendy Dean helps frame this conversation with moral injury.
STAT News: The 9 biggest challenges Biden will face on Covid-19
The collectivist spirit of sewing masks and applauding health care workers from the spring has given way to vitriolic politicization of basic public health measures like mask-wearing, said Wendy Dean, a physician who co-founded the nonprofit Moral Injury of Healthcare to highlight issues of clinician distress.
Medical Economics: Top Challenges 2021: #3 Physician burnout and autonomy
Wendy Dean, M.D., a psychiatrist and president and co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare, says that following the long period of rigorous training, focusing on independent, critical thinking with strict adherence to algorithms based on reimbursement policies can be grating.
Array Architects: Setting the Stage for Clinician-Centered Design
In advance of a white paper collaboration with Moral Injury of Healthcare and Array Architects and Design, this article highlights a pivot in design and architecture to clinician centered design.
CSM: As pandemic surges, where do ‘front-liners,’ business owners find hope?
“All of us have the need to feel normal,” she says. “But we’re continuing to demand as much of ourselves as we did before – to be the perfect parent, the perfect worker, the perfect student. People have to find a way to have forgiveness for themselves and recognize that they’re doing the very best they can.”
STAT News: Beyond burnout: For health care workers, this surge of Covid-19 is bringing burnover
In our latest piece for STAT News, Drs. Dean and Talbot examine how it is time for leaders of hospitals and health care systems to add another, deeper layer of support for their staff by speaking out publicly and collectively in defense of science, safety, and public health, even if it risks estranging patients and politicians.
Forbes: What’s Happening To Our Health Workforce
What exactly is moral injury – and how do we address the continued challenges faced by healthcare workers?
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