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Physician Moral Injury
The Narrative Matters essay published in this month’s issue of Health Affairs highlights the experience of a physician seeking respite from the injustice of US care delivery.
Author Jason Prior recounts feeling powerless at the Washington, D.C., hospital where he worked until 2019.
Patients were coming in with entirely preventable conditions and, frustratingly, he did not have access to the tools to help them. Desperate for a change, Prior moved to New Zealand in 2019 and began practicing there.
“Yet as I settled into my new role, I learned from colleagues that many around me struggled with the emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and lack of personal accomplishment that are associated with physician burnout—the same symptoms that drove my own move to New Zealand,” he writes.
“During my nearly three years in New Zealand, I realized that there are no perfect
systems,” he concludes.
Today in Health Affairs
Forefront, Andrew Twinamatsiko predicts that, if the Food and Drug Administration's recent rules on prohibiting menthol in cigarettes and flavors in cigars are implemented, they will save millions
of lives and minimize health disparities.
Dan Crippen explores the argument that the voluntary nature of participation in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation demonstrations created selection bias.
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FDA's Proposed Ban On Menthol Cigarettes, Explained
Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Ellen Bayer unpack the FDA's proposed ban on menthol cigarettes and its public health implications including concerns for health equity.
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