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Brennin Brown is a psychiatry resident. Susan Hatters Friedman is a reproductive and forensic psychiatrist.

Hazard to our health: Moral injury undermines care

Brennin Brown, MD and Susan Hatters Friedman, MD
Physician
February 15, 2021

In addition to the medical risks of COVID-19, the pandemic’s occupational hazards are numerous for health care workers. The threat of walking into the clinic or hospital and being exposed to the increasingly contagious novel coronavirus is a now-familiar reality for the many physicians caring for patients. It is astounding to think about these surreal conditions as the pandemic approaches its one-year mark. As doctors, we have met this new …

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Hazard to our health: Moral injury undermines care

Racial disparities and maternal mental health during COVID

Brennin Brown, MD and Susan Hatters Friedman, MD
Conditions
September 27, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic has unfolded, the uncertainty of this crisis has stoked heightened awareness and precaution in each aspect of our lives. We have incorporated personal protective equipment into our human interactions, and we are compulsively practicing sanitation rituals. Our social connections have been tethered at a distance for months on end. As a society, we are experiencing collective grief. Grieving hundreds of thousands of lives lost and the …

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