Description
| Product ID: | 9781586423544 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | If I Betray These Words |
| Subtitle: | Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First |
| Authors: | Author: Simon Talbot, Wendy Dean |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Family and health, Family & health |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system. Doctors face real risks when they stand up for their patients and their oath; they may lose their license, their livelihood, and for some, even their lives. There''s a growing sense, referred to as moral injury, that doctors have their hands tied - they know what patients need but can''t get it for them because of constraints imposed by healthcare systems run like big businesses. Workforce distress in healthcare-moral injury-was a crisis long before the COVID-19 pandemic, but COVID highlighted the vulnerabilities in our healthcare systems and made it impossible to ignore the distress, with 1 in 5 American healthcare workers leaving the profession since 2020, and up to 47% of U.S. healthcare workers now planning to leave their positions by 2025. If I Betray These Words confronts the threat and broken promises of moral injury - what it is; where it comes from; how it manifests; and who''s fighting back against it. We need better healthcare-for patients and for the workforce. It''s time to act. |
| Imprint Name: | Steerforth Press |
| Publisher Name: | Steerforth Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-04-04 |
