Clarifying the Language of Clinician Distress
Open Access
- 9 March 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 323 (10), 923-924
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.21576
Abstract
This Viewpoint argues that moral dilemma, moral distress, and moral injury more accurately and etiologically characterize what most people refer to as physician burnout, and proposes that this reconception can lead to more effective prevention strategies and targeted solutions to address physician stress, frustration, dissatisfaction, and depression.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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