Comment on ‘Moral injury in clinical and academic medicine—it is time to act’: the role of stakes-dependent invisibility (BJA Open 2026; 17: 100525)
Tumay Uludag Yanaral · 2026
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Tumay Uludag Yanaral adds a new cause to the debate over moral injury in medicine. The comment is on a 2026 piece that recast doctor distress as system failure rather than own burnout. The letter puts forward stakes-tied being unseen: staff, patients, symptoms, or harms go unseen or missed because of power rankings, high-stakes settings, or test limits. Most sleep doctors, the author argues, will recognize the pattern at once.
The comment applies the idea to surgery-time care, where sleep doctors often remain invisible partners despite decisive contributions. It puts forward remedies such as naming all contributors and positioning that doctor as a visible partner before, during, and after surgery. Professional bodies, it suggests, should set explicit attribution standards. The hypothesis is testable, the author notes, through a prospective multicenter study of the contribution-recognition gap across surgical complexity tiers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tumay Uludag Yanaral |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |