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Moral Injury Is Costing You Your Best People - a Harvard Trained Neurologist Explains with Dr. Zarya Rubin
What's in this episode
Dr. Zarya Rubin spent twelve years as a neurologist before realizing the career she'd sacrificed everything for no longer matched who she'd become. What she figured out on the way out is exactly what most corporate and nonprofit leaders are missing right now. In this episode, Cait and Dr. Zarya break down three concepts every HR and people leader needs in their vocabulary: Moral injury — the gap between what someone signed up to do and what the system actually lets them do. Healthcare workers have a name for it. Your top performers are living it without one. Compassion fatigue — what happens when over-giving curdles into resentment and gallows humor. Not a healthcare-only problem anyone in a "caring" role at home or work is at risk. "Compassion fatigue is when over-giving and over-caring stops making you more empathic it starts making you resentful toward the people you're supposed to care for most." Dr. Zarya Rubin The sunk cost fallacy — why "I've invested too much to leave" keeps your best people stuck instead of either re-engaging or exiting cleanly. This isn't a healthcare episode wearing a corporate costume. It's a leadership episode that happens to use healthcare as the clea