CHEST Advocates: "Feeling Burned Out? You're Not Alone"

For the Spring Issue of CHEST Advocates, published by the American College of Chest Physicians, Denny Watkins shines a light on the dark mental toll of a career in medicine.

In the article, Watkins features Dr. Dean when writing about being "betrayed by the system." He states, "In her 2023 book, If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It’s So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First, psychiatrist Wendy Dean, MD, argued that what’s driving doctors and nurses out of the health care industry is not just burnout, per se, but the regulations, policies, and cost-cutting measures preventing practitioners from caring for patients the way they are trained to do."

Comments on Federal Regulators' Request for Information

A recent cross-government inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, and the Department of Health and Human Services was a longed-for opportunity to speak out about the changes we all have seen—as practitioner, administrator, or patient—with healthcare corporatization.

Our CEO Dr. Dean submitted her comments to these agencies' Request for Information (RFI) on Consolidation in Healthcare Markets.

For stakeholders across the U.S. healthcare system, Big Medicine has made healthcare riskier, costlier, harder to get, and lower quality. As such, this RFI was timely and vitally important. We applaud the FTC, Justice Department, and HHS for undertaking this Action.

Save the Date

On October 15, we are cosponsoring a fully virtual event—the 4th International Occupational Distress and Moral Injury Conference—with St Andrew's Healthcare (UK) and the British Psychological Society.

This year's theme is "Restoration, Recovery, and Repair," highlighting potential systemic solutions to moral injury.

Watch this site here for conference registration soon.



Reauthorization of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act

It’s time to act to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, which offers a lifeline for health workers to address burnout and mental health. Hear about the importance of this legislation, including the Impact Wellbeing campaign and grants to support wellbeing.

Federal Agencies Launch Portal for Public Reporting of Anti-competitive Practices in Healthcare Sector

The Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services have launched an easily accessible online portal for the public to report healthcare practices that may harm competition.

The online portal, HealthyCompetition.gov, allows you to report potentially unfair and anti-competitive healthcare practices to the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and FTC. The launch of the new portal advances the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to lower healthcare and prescription drug costs and help create more competitive healthcare markets that are fairer to patients, physicians, and workers.

Want to hear from the new chair of the AMA's Board of Trustees, or get Wendy and Matt's take on professionalism and the Steward Health Care saga?

Have a listen to the 43cc podcast, co-hosted by Wendy Dean.

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