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moral injury By ROBERT P. LENNON, MD, JD, FAAFP; BRENDA M. WILSON, MS, CHCP; and PHILIP G. DAY, PHD
Moral injury happens when we perpetrate, bear witness to, or fail to prevent an act that transgresses our deeply held moral beliefs.1,2 Recognized in combatants for thousands of years,2 in 2018 Drs. Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot were the first to suggest that physicians may experience moral injury as a function of practicing medicine.1,3 Moral injury is a particular risk to uniformed healthcare workers as a function of their military medical service and the professional obligation to maintain “usual level of medical care” in the absence of adequate supplies in a military setting.4,5
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