When Doctors Grieve a Patients Death

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Do doctors grieve when their patients die? In the medical profession, such grief is seldom discussed — except, perhaps, as an example of the sort of emotion that a skilled doctor avoids feeling.  

Join me and my special guest calling in from Israel, Leeat Granek, PhD a critical health psychologist who studies grief, loss and cancer patients and their families, as we discuss the results that she and her colleagues discovered in their research on oncologists and patient loss: Not only do doctors experience grief, but the professional taboo on the emotion also has negative consequences for the doctors themselves, as well as for the quality of care they provide.

Read the NY Times article :http://goo.gl/hYhLZ

See Leeat on youtube http://goo.gl/e5Kupm