Opinion: Lessons from a different war for preventing moral injury among clinicians treating Covid-19
One week after President George W. Bush declared war in Iraq in 2003, I was deployed there as an Army nurse.
During my year in the war, I kept a daily journal of the fear I experienced and the injuries and deaths I witnessed. But on the last day of my deployment, I ripped it up and threw it away. Now that I’m in the fight against a different and invisible enemy, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in a major medical center in the Northeast, I wish I still had that journal.
