Brian Lehrer Weekend: Moral Crisis for Doctors, UFT President, 'The Sandwich'
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
The "Moral Crisis" for Doctors in Working America's Corporatized Health Care (First) | Union President Weighs in on Tentative Teachers Contract Deal (Starts at 31:57) | 'The Sandwich' and Other Hidden Culinary Gems (Starts at 01:01:23)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:04.8 | Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the |
| 0:09.5 | radio Monday at 10am on WNYC and WNYC.org. |
| 0:40.5 | We'll take calls from doctors now on the much-red New York Times magazine article, |
| 0:45.5 | describing that many doctors in this country experience themselves as being in a state of moral crisis. |
| 0:53.5 | The crisis, according to the article, comes from the business model of medicine these days, |
| 0:58.5 | in which doctors are usually employees of healthcare companies being measured on their productivity |
| 1:04.5 | like any other laborer and any other job, and having to not fully take care of their patients as a result. |
| 1:11.5 | Doctors who read the article and would like to call in and share your experiences, |
| 1:15.5 | 212-433-WNYC-212-433-9692. The article is called, |
| 1:24.5 | the moral crisis of America's Doctors, and with us now is the writer of the article, |
| 1:30.5 | Al Press, journalist and author of several books, most recently, |
| 1:34.5 | Dirty Work, Essential Jobs, and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America. |
| 1:39.5 | Al, thanks for coming on. Welcome to WNYC for this. |
| 1:43.5 | Thanks so much for inviting me on, Brian. |
| 1:45.5 | Can you start by defining the terms moral crisis and moral injury as you use them? |
| 1:51.5 | Sure. So the term moral injury, if listeners have heard it, |
| 1:56.5 | they probably read about it in relation to military veterans. |
| 2:00.5 | It's a term that psychiatrists in the VA started to use to describe a set of symptoms |
| 2:06.5 | that didn't quite match PTSD, but that seemed equally, if not more, troubling. |
| 2:12.5 | And the definition there is that when someone witnesses or does something in the course of fulfilling their duties, |
| 2:22.5 | that transgresses their core values. |
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