Understanding Moral Injury in Healthcare with Wendy Dean, MD

Psychiatrist, expert on "moral injury" in healthcare, author Welcome to Episode #77 of Habitual Excellence, presented by Value Capture. Episode page with transcript, video, links, and more Our guest today is Wendy Dean, MD, a psychiatrist. She is the President and co-founder of “Moral Injury of Healthcare,” a nonprofit organization focused on alleviating workforce distress. A seminal article she co-authored with Simon Talbot, MD for STATNews in July of 2018 began the conversation about moral injury in healthcare. She’s the co-author of the upcoming book If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First. It will be available April 4th and you can pre-order it now through the publisher. In today's episode, Dr. Dean talks with host Mark Graban, about topics and questions, including: What is “moral injury”? Definition 1: “perpetrating, failing to prevent, bearing witness to, or learning about acts that transgress deeply held moral beliefs and expectations.” Definition 2: “a deep soul wound that pierces a person’s identity, sense of morality, and relationship to society.” Why is moral injury different (and worse) than “burnout”? What’s the effect of moral injury? Can anything be done to reverse moral injury and its effects? Or just need to stop injuring others? What are some of the primary causes of moral injury in healthcare? How is the healthcare system broken? Recommendations related to EMR/EHR? Getting rid of "the stupid stuff" The role of psychological safety in creating an enabling environment… Why did you stop practicing as a psychiatrist? What’s the Level of moral injury in countries like Canada or England that have very different healthcare systems? What reforms do you recommend? With urgency... A "Clinician Protection Act"? Click to visit the main Habitual Excellence podcast page.