Wellbeing Checkup: Moral Injury in Medicine

Wendy Dean, MD, is a psychiatrist and president and co-founder of “Moral Injury of Healthcare”-a nonprofit organization focused on alleviating workforce distress. She recently wrote a book, “If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It’s So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First”. The book profiles clinicians around the country who feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath, and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system. Dean talks to Dermatology Times discusses some of those broken systems and offers solutions on how to begin fixing it.