After years as a VA psychologist and researcher, I’ve seen how moral distress shapes healthcare—and how we can respond.

In a small newsroom, an editor-in-chief watches helplessly as their paper is gutted by a hedge fund’s cost-cutting. A reporter covering the immigration crisis finds herself haunted by the suffering ...

Modern healthcare systems ask much of primary care doctors. They are expected to diagnose, reassure, coordinate care, manage chronic illness and increasingly fill the gaps when other parts of the ...

Moral distress occurs when someone feels constrained from acting on their ethical beliefs due to institutional or other external pressures. Moral distress is a significant challenge that may confront ...

I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions. Consider a typical case: A 6-month-old child has ...

Nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales experienced high levels of moral distress, strongly associated with depression and linked to intentions to leave the profession, according to a new ...

I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions. Consider a typical case: A 6-month-old child has ...