While other corners of the health-care world struggled to care for patients, protect staff, and find scarce equipment, for-profit health insurance companies did just fine. Drs. Wendy Dean and Simon G. Talbot co-authored this article with Dr. Samuel Shem.

As health systems address employee mental health, they’re finding women are most at-risk. Moral injury is front and center on the spectrum of harm.

Health care providers face a rising mental and emotional toll amid the pandemic. Peer support programs can alleviate internal burdens and create a spirit of shared empathy.

The intense decisions clinicians have to make during the pandemic don’t just cause burnout. They cause moral injury. Hosted by Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset.

For many of the nation’s physicians, doctoring has become an almost unrecognizable activity, and it started long before the COVID-19 crisis. Unfortunately, the doctors have no idea how to take care of themselves.

Dr. Wendy Dean was the featured mental health expert on MSNBC’s Live with Joshua Johnson on May 2, 2020. She first defines moral injury and then goes on to discuss the impossibly difficult decisions and conditions clinicians are working under during the coronavirus pandemic.

The recent suicides of healthcare workers on the front lines highlight a potential second disaster in the making. Psychiatrist Wendy Dean is an expert on Moral Injury and talks about real solutions.

In this discussion, Dr. Wendy Dean and Arthur Caplan, PhD discuss the challenges facing physicians, and if unionization is the next move for physicians to protect themselves.

Hero worship alone doesn’t protect frontline clinicians from distress. Dr. Wendy Dean is interviewed on the role of psychological trauma and the role it will play in the coming weeks and months as healthcare continues to reckon with the coronavirus pandemic.

What is moral injury and why is it important? Wendy Dean, MD, helps guide us in this conversation about Moral Injury and why it is so important in the context of COVID-19. This is our second appearance on the Happy Doc Podcast. Thanks for having us back, Dr. Brana!

Medical Workers Fighting COVID-19 Are Facing a Mental Health Crisis. If healthcare workers can’t provide the care they typically believe is medically necessary for their patients, they may experience a phenomenon known as “moral injury,” says Dr. Wendy Dean, a psychiatrist and the co-founder of the nonprofit Moral Injury of Healthcare.

Dr. Wendy Dean discusses why the term “burnout” does not encompass the full scope of the problem of physician distress with the team at Medscape, and what can be done to address physician career dissatisfaction. It starts with accurate terminology.

The sad truth is that many physicians are dissatisfied with their careers. They still enjoy helping their patients, but often feel beaten down by many challenges that overwhelm the reason they went into medicine in the first place. Surveys show that many physicians blame a lack of autonomy for their frustration. But what does physician autonomy mean in today’s healthcare world?

“In modern day healthcare, who is really in charge of how patients are treated? Healthcare providers are starting to speak out about how the business side of the industry can interfere with doctors providing the best care for patients. Some call it a “broken healthcare system.”

The crisis of clinician distress is not just a professional issue for Drs. Dean and Talbot. It is also a personal issue. Both have had their own experiences with moral injury, have watched friends struggle, and have been impacted by the broader implications.”

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.”

Drs. Wendy Dean, Simon Talbot, Stewart Pollack and Ms. Elizabeth O’Connor speak on Moral Injury, at WBUR’s CitySpace event hosted by Carey Goldberg on February 10, 2020.

Drs. Dean and Talbot are featured in a piece written by Melissa Bailey, where the closing quote is: ““The system is flawed […] It’s grinding us. It’s grinding good docs and providers out of existence.”