Moral Injury From Practicing Different Care For Different Patients

Recorded:
Oct 2024
Speaker
Jill Sergison
Duration
00:01:08
AUDIO CLIP
TRANSCRIPT

Jill Sergison: I think when you work, there’s always a trade off. When you’re doing direct patient care, you’re constantly at the mercy of policy. That could be the policy of your institution, and that could be the policy of your state or federal, and that trickles down. So, often it’s just a combination of both of those things. It’s really, really, really frustrating to feel like you’re at the mercy of that, and more than that, that your patients are at the mercy of that. And so for me, what really started to get to me was, even though I wasn’t practicing a ton in the later days before I completely stopped practicing– I completely stopped practicing frankly because the only days I practiced were the days I had class for my doctorate, so I couldn’t do it anymore– but I really slowed down on my practicing because I was constantly being put in a position of, okay, I’d have a Medicaid patient who had access to all these services– but only for six weeks postpartum– and then I would have a Latina woman who had access to no services or only until she left the hospital. I didn’t work with wealthy white women. I was constantly put in the position of having to practice two different types of medicine, two standards of care from one room to the other. That really caused a lot of moral injury.

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