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

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 research seeks to examine the lived experience of healthcare-related financial toxicity and medical debt . “. . . 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"