Title:
If I betray these words : moral injury in medicine and why it's so hard for clinicians to put patients first / Wendy Dean, M.D. with Simon Talbot, M.D.
ISBN:
9781586423544
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Lebanon, New Hampshire : Steerforth Press, [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
viii, 291 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Introduction: What beer and modern healthcare have in common -- Timeless principles, changing times -- Profits before people -- Losing connection -- Dr. Sisyphus -- Mental health is health -- Broken -- Escaping corporate control -- Communities destroyed -- Costs and benefits -- Empowering physicians -- Our oath is nonnegotiable -- Showdown -- A transformational leader -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"Offering 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Moral injury occurs when a person perpetrates, bears witness to, or fails to prevent an act that transgresses their deeply held moral beliefs. In today's healthcare system, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers are increasingly forced to consider the demands of other stakeholders before the needs of their patients. Healthcare workers started leaving the field in droves long before the COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in the US system. Dean and Talbot profile clinicians across the country who feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system, and offer suggestions of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve. -- adapted from jacket
Added Author:
OCLC Number:
on1374882583
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
Eagan - Wescott~1
