Person

W. Dean

Physician and writer on moral injury in medicine and the systemic causes of clinician depletion.

Why this matters

Dean reframes burnout as betrayal—workers punished for seeing what their organizations refuse to fix.

article

Talbot, S. G., and W. Dean. "Physicians Aren't 'Burning Out.' They're Suffering from Moral Injury." *STAT News*, July 26, 2018.

Book

How Systems Decide For Us When Judgment No Longer Scales

How metrics and incentives become the moral language of institutions when coordination outruns shared meaning.