#287 Moral Injury 🗓

Dr Jim Ritchie is an emergency physician. He served 25 years in the US Navy, including seven years as a residency program director and two deployments to Afghanistan. He then served for six years as a medical missionary in Chogoria, Kenya, and helped start a family medicine residency there.
Throughout his experience in combat medicine and missions medicine, Jim has engaged the problems of moral injury and burnout, and enjoys teaching the importance of boundaries. He currently works with MedSend in the Longevity Project, helping healthcare missionaries thrive. Jim and his wonderful wife Martha have six children and one daughter-in-law. They live in Virginia Beach.