What happens when healthcare workers’ duty to care for patients conflicts with the interests of the system in which they work? In this episode, we discuss this conflict known as Dual Loyalty with Dr. Nathaniel Morris, a psychiatrist at UCSF. Dr. Morris shares his experience caring for incarcerated patients in the San Francisco jail system and discusses his experience tackling dual loyalty in this setting. Dr. Morris also highlights the complex, ethical challenges of being a psychiatrist in the correctional setting and how mental healthcare should be addressed in an ideal world.
To read Dr. Morris’s NEJM perspective article:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2107013
Articles discussed:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2603938
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(17)30259-3.pdf
Music by
- Bacchanal by Nuisance
- Glasses on the Table by Crowander
