{"product_id":"b0b5sv6h4j","title":"If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn incredibly important and captivating book for patients, families, and clinicians detailing how we’re all hurt by corporate medicine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDoctors face real risks when they stand up for their patients and their oath; they may lose their license, their livelihood, and for some, even their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s a growing sense, referred to as moral injury, that doctors have their hands tied – they know what patients need but can’t get it for them because of constraints imposed by healthcare systems run like big businesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorkforce distress in healthcare—moral injury—was a crisis long before the COVID-19 pandemic, but COVID highlighted the vulnerabilities in our healthcare systems and made it impossible to ignore the distress, with 1 in 5 American healthcare workers leaving the profession since 2020, and up to 47% of U.S. healthcare workers now planning to leave their positions by 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf I Betray These Words  confronts the threat and broken promises of moral injury – what it is; where it comes from; how it manifests; and who’s fighting back against it. We need better healthcare—for patients and for the workforce. It’s time to act.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54232363663723,"sku":"YSL27512","price":9.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/1674\/0203\/files\/91Ai_AOb17L._SY1500.jpg?v=1792836345","url":"https:\/\/www.booktavero.com\/products\/b0b5sv6h4j","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}