Betrayal, Burnout & Moral Injury: Doctors and the Financialization of Medicine

Betrayal, Burnout & Moral Injury: Doctors and the Financialization of Medicine

Dr Anand Habib

Tues., March 3, at 7:00 pm on Zoom (free)

Register at: https://tinyurl.com/Moral-Injury-March3

presented by Healthcare for All Ohioans / SPAN Ohio with Physicians for a National Health Program

Dr. Anand Habib is an Assistant Professor at University of California
San Francisco where he practices adult hospital medicine and is a
health policy researcher and advocate. He earned his MD from Harvard
and an MPhil in Medical Anthropology from Oxford and completed a
postdoctoral fellowship in health policy at Yale. His work is grounded
in his belief that health outcomes are the embodied consequence of
social inequalities and that healthcare is a human right. Medicine is
therefore a vehicle for pragmatic solidarity in the fight for health
equity and social justice. His research seeks to examine the lived
experience of healthcare-related financial toxicity and medical debt
and the design of policies and programs that enable individuals with
dementia to age with dignity. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking
Indian food with his partner, visiting National Parks (25 so far), and
reading books (100+ since 2023).

“. . . Doctors had to make a choice. They could throw up their hands and tells themselves that working in healthcare in the United States requires compromises. But if they succumbed to moral injury, they knew they were consenting to their own destruction.

“So they chose to fight – for their integrity as physicians, for their patients, and for the profession of medicine. May all of us be inspired by their courage. Together we can ensure that health systems enable physicians to practice as they were trained to do, putting patients first.”

Wendy Dean, If I Betray These Words – Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It’s So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First