Don't Break Your Back for a Broken System: Storytelling, Self-Compassion, and Moral Injury in the Emergency Department #StopTheStigmaEM

This Stop the Stigma EM Month webinar, sponsored by the SAEM Wellness Committee, will explore how storytelling and self-compassion can help physicians process moral injury, reconnect with meaning, and recognize when experiences carried as personal failures may reflect larger systemic challenges. Drawing on Life Support and Stanford CCARE’s work in compassion education, participants will consider ways to protect the compassion that brought them to medicine, restore a sense of agency, and move from private suffering toward shared understanding and meaningful change.