Frontline health-care workers experienced moral injury long before COVID-19, but the pandemic
highlighted how pervasive and damaging this psychological harm can be. Moral injury …

PURPOSE Religious traditions call their members to care for the poor and marginalized, yet
no study has examined whether physicians’ religious characteristics are associated with …

The question of a physician’s involvement in aid in dying (or “assisted suicide”) is being
debated across the country. This article adopts no one position because its authors hold …

… In this paper, we examine problematic forms of rescue medicine and suggest the need to
rethink medicalized dying within the context of medicine’s orientation to health and …

A Yale physician's fascinating and wise exploration of why so many people die poorly and
how a medieval bestseller on the art of dying well holds important lessons for today.

The goal of this work is to assess the beliefs of US physicians about the national legalization
of physician-assisted suicide (PAS). We sent a survey to 1000 randomly chosen physicians …

Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a
diverse population in a secularized century. Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. …

The practice of medicine increasingly poses obstacles to the cultivation of strong relationships
between physicians and their patients. The current discussion of medical professionalism …

Moral injury is the trauma caused by violations of deeply held values and beliefs. This paper
draws on relational philosophical anthropologies to develop the connection between moral …

Public health emergencies create challenges for the accommodation of visitors to hospitals
and other care facilities. To mitigate the spread of COVID-19 early in the pandemic, health …