Dr. Jenny Shields
@drjennyshields.bsky.social
Psychologist. Bioethicist. Fierce Advocate for Good.
https://drjennyshields.com
https://drjennyshields.com
"In health care, presence and praise are rarely reimbursable. The warmth that fosters trust and healing is treated as “nice,” but ultimately optional. The parts of care that are most human are often the first to be deprioritized..." kevinmd.com/2025/05/what...
What ChatGPT’s tone reveals about our cultural values
Framing warmth and affirmation in AI as inefficiencies reveals deeper societal values that devalue emotional nuance, echoing longstanding issues in health care and other high-efficiency systems.
kevinmd.com
May 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"In health care, presence and praise are rarely reimbursable. The warmth that fosters trust and healing is treated as “nice,” but ultimately optional. The parts of care that are most human are often the first to be deprioritized..." kevinmd.com/2025/05/what...
Reposted by Dr. Jenny Shields
"Unlike burnout, moral distress isn’t primarily exhaustion. Unlike trauma, it isn’t primarily fear. Instead, moral distress arises from an unspoken, collective agreement to pretend things are fine when they’re clearly not." kevinmd.com/2025/05/dsm-...
DSM-5 doesn’t name it, but moral distress is everywhere in medicine
Clinicians are increasingly suffering from moral distress—a deep ethical injury caused by systemic constraints that force them to act against their professional values, demanding not resilience…
kevinmd.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"Unlike burnout, moral distress isn’t primarily exhaustion. Unlike trauma, it isn’t primarily fear. Instead, moral distress arises from an unspoken, collective agreement to pretend things are fine when they’re clearly not." kevinmd.com/2025/05/dsm-...