Physicians Aren't 'Burning Out.' They're

Why this matters here

Talbot and Dean argue in STAT that what clinicians call burnout often tracks moral injury: distress from being unable to practice according to ethical commitments under institutional constraints. When Incentives Become the Moral Language uses that reframing beside the nurse who meets the chart criteria yet doubts readiness—to ask what dashboards cannot register when people carry the gap between what metrics defend and what the situation seems to require.