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    Opinion: Lessons from a different war for preventing moral injury among clinicians treating Covid-19

    Taking steps now will help soften the blow when #Covid19 fades, the health care system returns to peacetime functioning, and clinicians have time to process what they've been through.
    by Rachel E. Smith Apr 01, 2020 3 minutes
    Medical workers remove a body from a refrigerated truck outside of Brooklyn Hospital in New York City Tuesday. Due to a surge in deaths caused by the coronavirus, hospitals are using refrigerated trucks as makeshift morgues.

    One week after President George W. Bush declared war in Iraq in 2003, I was deployed there as an Army nurse.

    During my year in the war, I kept a daily journal of the fear I experienced and the injuries and deaths I witnessed. But on the last day of my deployment, I ripped it up and threw it away. Now that I’m in the fight against a different and invisible enemy, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in a major medical center in the Northeast, I wish

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