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Emergency Physician Suffers a Different Kind of Moral Injury

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9 By speaking out, I hope to once again find my calling in medicine. 2024;15(1):3-16. Muir-Cochrane E, Oster C. One study found that up to 47 percent of people end up with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of this traumatizing practice. The “hidden curriculum” of our training teaches us not to challenge the hierarchy.

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ACEP Rejects “Excited Delirium”

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Wetli was referring to his and a colleague’s publication of a case report, in 1981, and a seven-case series in 1985 describing the novel “excited delirium syndrome” in individuals under the influence of cocaine, “a medical emergency but with a psychiatric presentation.” I personally don’t want people to die in police custody.

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