Can an Institutional Commitment to Equity Help Restore the Moral Core of Medicine?

Physician moral stress and burnout have emerged as major challenges for US health care, particularly as physicians struggle to prevent patients from falling through the cracks of the complicated, and often opaque, health and hospital systems within which they work. Can hospitals help physicians recapture the moral core of their practice through a broader institutional commitment to equity? And what does it take to establish equity as a core element of hospital systems and practice? Join critical care physician and health and human rights specialist Katherine Peeler, MD, MA as she hosts a conversation with expert panelists on the challenges physicians face in 21st century hospital systems as well as organization-level interventions to align hospital and physician efforts toward health equity. Panelists include: Omar B. Lateef, DO, Vikas Saini, MD, and Thea James, MD, MBA. Moderated by Kelsey N. Berry, PhD, and Charlotte H. Harrison, PhD, JD, MPH, HEC-C. Support provided by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.