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Heroic image of medical staff can cause harm – The Guardian
Letters: The psychological impact of working as a doctor is often overlooked, writes Dr Sophie Behrman, and the talk of heroes exacerbates this problem, while P…
I was very pleased to read Clare Geradas article (Psychological PPE is what Britains health professionals urgently need now, 16 October). If the last wave was one in which doctors were seen as heroes going into battle, I hope that this wave will paint them in a more compassionate light. As a psychiatrist I have seen numerous medical colleagues suffering moral injury; we even jokingly wondered if feeling guilty was a symptom of Covid infection early in the pandemic. Moral injury is heightened whe…
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