The Root of Moral Distress for Physicians

How did we get here?

All of us who gravitate to the space of healing, birth, and death, understand on a visceral level what being in the presence of the profound feels like; we recognize being enriched by something beyond the holy dollar, something far more potent. Analytic psychologist Ginette Paris experienced in the arms of a medical assistant in the ICU a “transfusion of life from heart to heart.” This is a description of healing presence, and it is an essential but little discussed and often disavowed aspect of doctoring. Why is this a problem? Read more to find out.