Al Jazeera: Burned out doctors or broken healthcare system?

Doctors say bureaucracy and litigious nature of healthcare industry undermines their oath to uphold patient safety.

According to Dr Wendy Dean, “every time medical professionals have to choose anything other than their patient, it can be indicative of moral injury, or it predisposes them to moral injury.” Dr Dean and Dr Simon Talbot first used this term in a 2018 opinion piece that resonated with many. Listen to Dr. Dean and others on Al Jazeera: Burned out doctors or broken healthcare system?

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