Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon presents moral injury as a compare and contrast between the soldier vs healthcare professional as he big is his talk.
I listened intently to his definitions and exploration into MI/PTSD as they relate to war and crisis intervention .
Towards the last 3rd of his lecture he gives away his political bias . How disappointing to have spent the better part of an hour concurring with his presentation on what moral injury is and how it can be addressed then he entranced and traversed into biased territory by making many references to the failures of our country to inform the public with solidarity as well as not being prepared for the o slot of problems that accompany Covid.
Yes, trust was placed on our federal health gurus. They proved to be unsteady and waffling in ways that felt like a betrayal of sorts to us in the trenches and in harms way.
I would have come away with a base of knowledge not recognized ( moral injury) before even as I have spent much time in educating myself on bioethics as it has changed since it’s founding in the United States in the late 60’s as a true discipline to be studied and put into practice.
Perhaps Mr. Wilinka-Lyndon might review the
Structural power system of a Republic.
States rights, its manner of disaster planning, stockpiling for such things as pandemics are NOT dictated by the Federal Governt.
As was witnessed in New York, when help was called out for hospital ship was sent, ventilators were ordered to be delivered with all red tape cut.
There were blocks placed on ACCEPTING help from Washington as a power play by California, Oregon and Washington State. Those states instead took inferior supplies from China.
Having given some facts as to the evolution to this horror of pandemic, let’s be intellectually honest by acknowledging that as these political power struggles emerged into light the nurses, doctors and chaplains were placed in uncharted territory and made to perform in unsavory ways at times due to moral fatigue, policy defects, personal conflicts within community and family hardships and yes, loss of leadership in every corner but at verging degrees. Local failures did more to crush moral holdings as daily conflicts due to unprepared institutions asked Herculean results out of us rarely admitting they created the largess for failure. On the state level here in California we were at a (-) level of stockpiles and information we could count on.
What started out as a cogently well researched talk of what moral injury is compared to PTSD and the contingencies they both share wound up being a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Moral injury has a place in the table of contents as to its, causes, effects, the need to discern
How it can be evaluated both as an injury and a deficit in character. ( I recommend he read Ordinary Men for some hard facts on injury vs character defects).
I hope he reconsiders his heavy hands in blame.
This pandemic has revealed years of defaults and cheats on the population.
BTW anyone diagnosed with CoVID was relieved of their medical bills. Where did that originate from? Just asking
