WHAT IS
Moral Injury?
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.
Moral injury is distinct from other forms of distress or pain, including burnout. The two conditions may occur separately, or simultaneously, and may influence each other, but addressing one does not guarantee resolution of the other.
It is simplest to think about moral injury and burnout as rooted in different dysfunctions: relational rupture or operational overburden, respectively. Disparate root causes require different approaches to effectively address the challenges.
We need better healthcare. It’s time to act.
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We keep admiring the problem instead of solving the problem. We need to get about solving.”
DR. DON BERWICK, EPISODE 3
We are creating awareness of the problem and working to solve systemic workforce distress.
“What the physician wants and needs is first and foremost.”
Dr. Jim Beckner, Executive Director at the Richmond Academy of Medicine