If I Betray These Words

Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First

Author  Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot
If I Betray These Words

FEATURES A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR

An incredibly important and captivating book for patients, families, and clinicians detailing how we’re all hurt by corporate medicine

“Wendy Dean diagnoses the dangerous state of our healthcare system, illustrating the thumbscrews applied to medical professionals by their corporate overlords… Required reading for all stakeholders in healthcare.” — Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error

Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system.

Doctors face real…

$25.95
September 10, 2024
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