The Moral Distress Syndrome Affecting Physicians

This book raises awareness of moral distress syndrome in the healthcare industry. Presented in a business novel format, it describes a Grand Rounds with a magistral lecture, a format familiar to physicians, where the audience asks questions pertaining to this syndrome and the instructor provides answers.

Eldo E. Frezza is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), American Medical Association, American Medical Physician Leadership. He is now Chief of Surgery at Nashville General Hospital and Professor at Meharry Medical school.

PART I: THE ISSUES FUELING THE MORAL DISTRESS SYNDROME 1. The Grand Round lecture 2. Moral Distress Syndrome 3. Litigation syndrome 4. Burn out 5. Suicide from Medical Student to residents to clinicians 6. Why Physicians suffer more suicides? 7. Malpractice: can create everlasting injury 8. Why is Medicine burning out physicians? 9. Broken system and corporate culture 10. Physician Leaving Medicine 11. Impossible Victory: working as a chain worker 12. Emotional trauma: brain zapping and concussion 13. Divorce among physicians 14. Medical Malpractice Insurance crises 15. Opioid crisis and relief PART II: THE DOCTOR, THE MAN 16.Training hurdles 17. Double Residencies 18. How medicine can ruin a marriage 19. The Legal Issues and hollow victory 20. Inability to return to work: the apex of Moral distress PART III: THE SOCIETY AND THE SUFFERING PHYSICIANS 21. Society responsibilities 22. Emotional detachment and Patients responsibilities 23. Do patients want to participate in their care? 24. It is challenging to be a physician 25. The loneliness of a Physician in moral distress 26. Divorce because of moral distress 27. The stress of the lawsuit breaks family 28. The birth of moral distress: the syndrome 29. Are physicians discriminated? 30. The American Medical Association (AMA) Directions 31. Safe space and final Introspections