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Why It’s Hard to Put Patients First | Wendy Dean, MD

The Doctor's Art

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The Importance of Moral Injury in Healthcare

Sally Kohn: I think that you are sort of a polymath in the sense that you have both surgery and psychiatry training. And then on top of that, you are now in addition to, I guess, no longer a clinically practicing doctor, but anyway, a doctor and also an author and a speaker. It seems like one of the themes that really brings a lot of those roles together is your focus on moral injury. So just to start off, can you just tell us what is moral injury and how did you get interested in really focusing on that? She says she was conscripted in a sense, by her own experience, both as a clinician, as a family

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