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

Pamela Wible MD

Dr. Shay’s original definition was based upon his patients’ war narratives and Homer’s Iliad (762 B.C.) Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis. With no evidence-based treatments for physician moral injury and zero progress after forty years of burnout prevention, what next? Now is the time for brutal truth—and action.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor.