About this episode

Dr. Wendy Dean discusses moral injury in healthcare and its impact on physicians with Dr. Graham Walker.

Dr. Wendy Dean is a psychiatrist, author, and the co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding and alleviating clinician distress. In 2018, she co-wrote a 500-word op-ed in STAT News that did something rare: it handed an entire profession the language for something most physicians had been carrying alone. The argument was simple and devastating. Physicians aren't burning out. That implies a personal failure of resilience. What's actually happening is moral injury, the damage that accumulates when you are repeatedly forced to act in ways that violate your own moral code. That piece started an international conversation that Wendy has been leading ever since, through her book "If I Betray These Words," her podcast 43cc , and her ongoing research and consulting work with health systems around the world. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Wendy to go deep on what moral injury actually is, why getting the language right matters so much, and what a healthcare system that takes clinician distress seriously would actually need to look like. They cover AI's entry into an already fractured system, the EMR as a cautionary…

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