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

Pamela Wible MD

Psychiatrists define burnout as a job-related dysphoria in an individual without major psychopathy—meaning you’re normal; your job is killing you. Moral injury is a normal human response to an abnormal traumatic event—a deep soul wound shattering one’s identity and morality. Primary prevention intervenes before injury (seatbelts).

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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