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An incredibly important and captivating book for patients families and clinicians detailing how were 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 patientfirst values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system

Doctors 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

Theres a growing sense referred to as moral injury that doctors have their hands tied they know what patients need but cant get it for them because of constraints imposed by healthcare systems run like big businesses

Workforce distress in healthcaremoral injurywas a crisis long before the COVID19 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 US healthcare workers now planning to leave their positions by 2025

If I Betray These Words confronts the threat and broken promises of moral injury what it is where it comes from how it manifests and whos fighting back against it We need better healthcarefor patients and for the workforce Its time to act