By nature of their profession as life savers, doctors and nurses are, indeed, expected to know the answer every time to every medical mystery and set upon curing said medical mystery with the correct procedures and standards, every time.

But doctors and nurses are human. With natural human tendencies, doctors and nurses sometimes experience what Dr. Pauline W. Chen, writer for the New York Times, calls moral distress—the feeling of being trapped by competing demands and forced to compromise on what is right for patients. Although nurses have traditionally been labeled as undergoing moral distress, Chen explains that doctors, who are caught between obligations to patients and the demands of insurance companies, administrators and occasionally, patients’ families, are also feeling increasingly trapped and unable to do what they believe is ethically right.

One of the reasons doctors can feel morally distressed, according to Chen, could be the environment in which they work. Doctors are finding themselves working in environments where they lack confidence in their abilities and trust in their facilities. An independent review organization like AllMed can help facilitate and establish the trust needed between all players in a hospital setting—nurses, doctors, administrators, patients, patients’ families and even health insurance providers—through third party mediating and review.

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