Resources on Coping with Patient Death
- Coping with Grief: How Physicians Can Heal After Patient Deaths – An article on the website Physician Practice. (by Deborah Shute, September 23, 2019)Tips include:
- Create a safe space – It is important to acknowledge your emotions. Leadership can play a supportive role by creating opportunities for the expressing of emotions.
- Normalize grief support – Similarly, leadership can play a role in explaining that it is normal and accepted to access your organization’s formal grief support resources.
- Let go of guilt.
- Prioritize self-care.
- Doctors grieve, too – A lesson I did not learn in medical school – A blog by a Pediatric resident on MedPage.com
- Physician Grief with Death – A review of the literature article by Randy A Sansone MD and Lori A Sansone MD, published in Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, 20(4), 2012. Includes an overview of grief responses in physicians and ways of resolving the grief response.
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