Wendy Dean MD and Simon Talbot MD Moral Injury Intro

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I am about to release a very compelling series of episodes on Moral Injury in Health Care workers. I was prompted to do this because of the work of Pamela Wibel MD and other sources that we have spoken with over the years about physician suicide. My work with public health response during COVID-19 has made me all the more sensitive to this issue. Then, 2 weeks ago, a young man that I knew pretty well took his own life. It had a far reaching impact and so moral injury just hit very close to home. Because I am releasing this during the massive response to the death of George Floyd I felt that I needed to put this series into context. Nobody other than a sociopath thinks the death of another person is a good thing and nobody concerned about the health of our nation can casually ignore a death that occurs during a police arrest but I hope that in this intro to other things you understand why I am not going to join into the legion of voices commenting about those events. I am going to address something that I can speak to with some authority and that is why I felt the need to address questions that will arise when this goes out. I hope you get something out of this and I think you will learn a lot from Wendy and Simon as I post their content. If you want a taste of it, head over to https://fixmoralinjury.org/ Look at this paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6752815/ and then prepare to listen to a dialogue about all of it. While we are at it I want to point out that the music of this episode, which is just awesome, was picked for its mood and it is called. Hold Me Down by Oliver Michael Courtesy of Artlist.io I recommend you sample their stuff, I cannot thank them enough for this service. And one last shameless plug, if you like this content please tweets it, forward it to your facebook friends and spread it around. Look after your doctors, PAs and nurses, you need them. Finally, if you have comments, hit me up on Facebook at TR Fredricks or on Twitter @MedicalCinema Have a great week!