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WE WILL CHANGE MORAL INJURY

by creating sustainable work communities and vibrant, restorative cultures where professionals thrive.

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OUR OATH IS NOT NEGOTIABLE.

Moral injury describes the plight of tough, resourceful, and resilient clinicians who feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system.

The experience of moral injury is distinct from other forms of occupational distress, including burnout.

And it demands its own solutions.

We need better healthcare. It’s time to act.

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“Only through dialogue, mutual respect, and a collective commitment to ethical care can we lay the foundation for health care systems that are resilient, equitable, and truly morally centered.”
— New England Journal of Medicine, September 5, 2024
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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.

THE BOOK

If I Betray These Words

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THE PODCASTS

43cc, The Truth About Healthcare

An honest, fun, irreverent, and deadly serious podcast series that exposes the truth about healthcare (with a shot to dull the pain). Hosts Wendy Dean, MD and Matt Ramsey, MD, take an in-depth look medicine’s machinery tearing the patient-physician relationship apart and how we might stitch them back together. The Moral Matters podcast archive discusses the drivers of distress through the lens of moral injury.

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    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?

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