Martyr for Hire

A book about what modern healthcare has learned to extract from the people inside it. Not a wellness argument, and not a burnout memoir: an examination of incentives, obligation, and the way institutional need reshapes professional identity from the inside.

The book draws on more than two decades of clinical work across military and civilian medicine — emergency departments, wards, trauma, orthopedics, urgent care — and on the literature of professional ethics, moral injury, and institutional power.