Hi there on Point Podcast listeners, it's Magna Chakrabardi, your host and I've got a special

first-person episode here for you. On today's main show, we talked about the problem of moral injury

in modern medicine. Doctors and nurses across the country tell us that the corporatization

of healthcare has gotten to the point where they feel forced to compromise the quality of care they

give their patients in the name of profits. And for many doctors and nurses that betrays their

training, the Hippocratic oath they took at the beginning of their careers, and it's driving

them to leave the profession. We heard a particularly compelling story from Dr. Jamie Woolridge,

a pediatric pulmonologist. I've always had a love for kids. I knew from the moment I was

went into medicine, I would take care of kids, and I take care of kids with chronic illnesses,

specifically cystic fibrosis, asthma, lung disease related to being born premature.

So at my previous institution, I'm taking care of asthma patients, and I find out that the hospital

has decided for financial reasons to cut the social worker that works in the clinic with me,

the respiratory therapist that work in the clinic with me, and the dietician. I have these staff

coming into my office, trying, trying to figure out why they're 20 years of dedication to patient

care has just been ended by an HR director who has said, you're done. I go to leadership,

and I try to advocate to get these positions happening again, and I end up getting retaliated

against myself. I had salaries stripped of me. I was taken out of leadership positions without

cause, because I was fighting for patients, and my male colleagues didn't get in trouble.

And the stress of this left me feeling so trapped and scared that I ended up having like

actual physical manifestations. I started getting headaches, I started not being able to sleep,

I started having GI symptoms, I started having blood pressure, I'd never had high blood pressure in

my life. I completely interrupted my ability to take care of patients. Like I could not deliver the

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