Opinion: Healing the ‘moral injury’ of clinicians will take a village

When two physicians wrote recently in STAT that their colleagues aren’t burning out but are instead suffering from “moral injury,” they struck a nerve. Thousands of physicians across the country talked about it on social media and discussion boards; rapper and internist ZDoggMD spent nearly 30 minutes discussing it with his followers.

This is a subject that clinicians have been talking about in differing, veiled terms for years. It’s reflected in the quiet whispers that something is wrong — something more than mouse clicks and workflows.

Is it any surprise that a broken system has produced a broken workforce?

Take a random sample of 100 doctors. of them are emotionally drained, have symptoms of depression, only would choose medicine if they could do it again, and hope their children don’t choose the profession. Even more sobering, of them have thought about suicide in the