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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot with their landmark 2018 article, Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ Moral injury now extends beyond combat veterans to include physicians in 2018 when Dean and Talbot announced their opposition and alternative to the label physician “burnout.” So what’s the real issue? They’re suffering from moral injury.