In her story, medical writer Bette Weinstein Kaplan covers pioneering work at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston: moving from preventing physical medical harms to patients to include preventing emotional harm. A recent paper published in BMJ (read more here), calls "emotional harm the neglected harm." Lead author Lauge Sokol-Hessner and team note that, “emotional harms can erode trust, leave patients feeling violated and damage patient-provider relationships. Such injuries can be severe and long lasting, with adverse effects on physical health. Failure to acknowledge and systematically address these harms ensures that they continue.”
Read Kaplan's full story here.
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