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'I could not deliver the care my patients needed': A doctor's experience of moral injury

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On today’s main show, we talked about moral injury in modern medicine. Listen here.

Health care professionals across the country say they’re being forced to compromise the quality of care they give their patients in the name of profits.

Dr. Jamie Wooldridge is a pediatric pulmonologist. She says the stresses of the health care industry are driving many doctors and nurses to leave

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