Coronavirus: Why healthcare workers are at risk of moral injury
The breach of a person's personal ethical code at the heart of a moral injury can inflict lasting behavioural, emotional and psychological damage, distorting a person's self-identity and provoking reflexive distrust of others.
While healthcare workers know they are doing the right thing by helping people with Covid-19, they may still be affected by responses of leaders, from the hospital hierarchy up to the national level.US death rates v UK, Italy and South Korea "You know you are on a life-saving mission, and so you can't understand how the president doesn't seem to get it in the same way."
"Once the rest of society has said thank you and moved on to getting back to normal and thinking about the economy, that's when these people will sit down and think, 'What the hell happened back there?'" Ms Brock says.
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