Maine AllCare volunteer Dan Bryant, a retired physician from Cape Elizabeth responded to a recent opinion piece on burnout and moral injury in health care, and how a simplified, publicly funded, universal health care system . . . read more »
How our system hurts medical workers and how universal health care could help Burnout, workforce distress, moral injury: These terms have different shades of meaning but all point to a growing crisis in medical workers, . . . read more »
Improved Medicare for All is one way to reach our goal of health care for everyone in Maine—Everybody In, Nobody Out. But efforts to privatize original Medicare, including through ACO REACH, threaten the existence of . . . read more »
Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System. Eric Reinhart New York Times February 5, 2023 “Doctors have long diagnosed many of our sickest patients with “demoralization syndrome,” a condition commonly . . . read more »
Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in U.S. Health Care Don Berwick January 30, 2023 JAMA Network “In the mosaic floor of the opulent atrium of a house excavated at Pompeii is a slogan . . . read more »