Paying a Price for Doctors’ Moral Injury
This week in Becker's Healthcare, our CEO Wendy Dean, MD and Christian Macedonia, M.D. co-author a must-read column on how doctors’ moral injury affects all of us.
Drs. Dean and Macedonia write:
“Physicians are caught – with incentives and threats – in conflicted relationships with health systems, third-party payers, and profit-seeking middlemen…Following corporate imperatives rather than professional oaths has led to widespread moral injury among health workers. [This ensures] choice and independence for physician practice and constraining healthcare corporatization are the best ways to protect patients.”