How to Recognize and Overcome Moral Injury in Healthcare
05/28/24 • 38 min
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Dr. Jennie Byrne completed her MD and PhD in Neurophysiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She completed her psychiatry residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has worked in many roles during her long career and continues to practice psychiatry part-time. She has held advisory and executive leadership roles as well.
Dr. Byrne is the founder and CEO of Constellation PLLC and the Co-Founder and Advisor at Belong Health. She has been called a “Triple Threat” because of her work as a physician leader, a healthcare executive, and an entrepreneur. She is a brain and behavior specialist with extensive training and experience in psychiatry, psychotherapy, and neuroscience.
Her book Moral Injury: Healing the Healers illuminates the often-overlooked concept of moral injury, offering a fresh perspective on the challenges facing healthcare professionals today. Dr. Byrne asserts that the issue lies not in individuals' resilience but in the systemic factors perpetuating moral injury within healthcare systems. Drawing parallels between healthcare and other workplaces, the book highlights the damaging consequences of outdated models and language.
During our interview, Dr. Byrne describes the hallmark features of moral injury and provides examples of colleagues, clients, and patients who have experienced it. She offers a metaphor for understanding moral injury. She closes our interview with examples of ways to help others overcome moral injury at both a personal level and as leaders in a large organization.
You will find all of the links mentioned in the episode at https://nonclinicalphysicians.com/overcome-moral-injury/
Learn the business and management skills you need by enrolling in the University of Tennessee Physician Executive MBA program at nonclinicalphysicians.com/physicianmba.
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Get a list of 70 nontraditional jobs at nonclinicalphysicians.com/70jobs.
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Dr. Jennie Byrne completed her MD and PhD in Neurophysiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She completed her psychiatry residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has worked in many roles during her long career and continues to practice psychiatry part-time. She has held advisory and executive leadership roles as well.
Dr. Byrne is the founder and CEO of Constellation PLLC and the Co-Founder and Advisor at Belong Health. She has been called a “Triple Threat” because of her work as a physician leader, a healthcare executive, and an entrepreneur. She is a brain and behavior specialist with extensive training and experience in psychiatry, psychotherapy, and neuroscience.
Her book Moral Injury: Healing the Healers illuminates the often-overlooked concept of moral injury, offering a fresh perspective on the challenges facing healthcare professionals today. Dr. Byrne asserts that the issue lies not in individuals' resilience but in the systemic factors perpetuating moral injury within healthcare systems. Drawing parallels between healthcare and other workplaces, the book highlights the damaging consequences of outdated models and language.
During our interview, Dr. Byrne describes the hallmark features of moral injury and provides examples of colleagues, clients, and patients who have experienced it. She offers a metaphor for understanding moral injury. She closes our interview with examples of ways to help others overcome moral injury at both a personal level and as leaders in a large organization.
You will find all of the links mentioned in the episode at https://nonclinicalphysicians.com/overcome-moral-injury/
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Dr. Sylvie Stacy received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She then completed her Master’s Degree in Public Health and her Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Residency at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
She is a dually board-certified addictionologist and preventive medicine specialist with nearly a decade of experience in correctional healthcare. She has held nonclinical jobs in medical writing, medical education, utilization management, and clinical documentation improvement. She also hosted a popular website and blog dedicated to nonclinical and nontraditional careers for physicians that she has since sold. She wrote and published her first book, 50 Nonclinical Careers for Physicians: Fulfilling, Meaningful, and Lucrative Alternatives to Direct Patient Care, in 2020.
Earlier this year she released her follow-up book, 50 Unconventional Clinical Careers for Physicians: Unique Ways to Use Your Medical Degree Without Leaving Patient Care. In today’s interview, we will catch up with her since her appearance on the podcast in June of 2018, and learn about her new book.
During our interview, Sylvie explains why she wrote her new book and describes several of the unconventional clinical careers she wrote about. Finally, she provides advice for thriving in an unconventional clinical career.
You will find all of the links mentioned in the episode at https://nonclinicalphysicians.com/unconventional-clinical-careers/
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Dr. Tom Davis is a business owner, consultant, author, and expert in telemedicine practice. He is a board-certified family physician who grew his practice over 16 years into a regional health system. Then he and his partners merged with a competitor in 2012 and cashed out.
After the merger, he worked as an employee for the new entity but then discovered that he and corporate medicine were not a good fit. So, he quit to become a freelance consultant and author.
He developed expertise in running a telemedicine practice, and systems to optimize it. He now teaches and consults on telemedicine. He also developed a thriving consulting business helping health systems, physician groups, and venture capital firms develop new programs to support value-based care initiatives.
Today’s show presents a lecture Tom gave during the 2023 Nonclinical Career Summit. In this presentation, Tom shares his understanding of the consulting business and the methods he used to succeed, with specific tactics to attract and serve venture capital firms.
You will find all of the links mentioned in the episode at https://nonclinicalphysicians.com/consultant-to-venture-capital-firms/
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