WCC Team Spotlight | Moral injury in modern medicine and how to heal health care workers

Dr. Wendy Dean, MD, discusses her experiences with moral injury in medical practice in an interview with Boston's WBUR On Point radio program last week. She says this about the challenges moral injury creates for healthcare professionals: 

"The costs of health care and becoming efficient are part of what drives this. But the other challenge for clinicians as a whole is that the corporatization of care has led to a shift in where decisions are made rather than being made by clinicians who work at the bedside, whether they're nurses or doctors, they're being shifted into management, upper management or into the C-suite. And it is not infrequent that the folks who are at those levels may not ever have been a clinician. And so, trying to make decisions for those on the front lines becomes harder. And it may be less closely connected to what will work for them."

Stream it here.