Moral injury in medicine: the cost of endless accommodation
When the pattern became impossible to ignore
A patient came into the office after two or three days of cough, congestion, body aches, and fatigue. Fairly typical upper respiratory symptoms. I offered to test him for COVID. He scoffed and dismissively declined any viral testing.
Apparently he already “knew” what this was. According to him, it was “turning into bronchitis,” and what he “needed” was a Z-pack. I explained that after only …
Moral injury in medicine: the cost of endless accommodation
