Tag: Moral injury
Corner Stitch: How to say ‘I messed up’
An anonymous vascular resident offers some advice for dealing with a troubling case in the latest edition of our Corner Stitch column by and...
‘Battlefield first aid’: A peer-to-peer prescription for dealing with adverse surgical...
“Battlefield first aid” after a colleague has a bad case as the cornerstone of peer-to-peer support in vascular surgery was the feature of the...
Expiation, Karl Wallenda, Oppenheimer and us
On March 22, 1978, Karl Wallenda went up on a high wire in Puerto Rico strung between two high-rise buildings. There was no safety...
Of moral distress, coronavirus and implications for burnout
Moral distress has been described as “as a phenomenon in which one knows the right action to take but is constrained from taking it.”1...
Wellness: Of dreaming in blood and the ‘moral injury’ contained in...
Have you ever “dreamt in blood”? A vivid, waking nightmare that reminds you of exsanguinating hemorrhage that can’t be stopped? I have. An Iraqi...