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WE CHANGE MORAL INJURY

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

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OUR OATHS ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE.

Tough, resourceful, and resilient clinicians feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system.

Moral injury is different from other forms of occupational distress, including burnout.

And it demands its own solutions.

We all need better healthcare.

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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

Dive Deeper Right Away

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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.

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If I Betray These Words

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