Barry talks with Dr. Allan Peetz about the varied experiences that make up the life of a trauma surgeon. While surgeons are often hailed as heroes by those of us who need them (and they are), the field automatically comes with a potential downside. Our guest states, “You have this great hour to help people, but it also comes with this risk of harm.” We don’t often think of the experience of our doctors, but you certainly will after listening to this fascinating episode.
Articles: Does thinking make it so?—what to make of the empirical evidence on moral distress amongst surgeons, Dr. Allan Peetz; To feel or not to feel: a scoping review and mixed-methods meta-synthesis of moral distress among surgeons, M. Andrew Millis, C. Ann Vitous, Cara Ferguson, et al.