Have you ever lost a patient and found yourself thinking about them long after the shift ended? This episode explores the grief clinicians can carry after a patient dies, including the losses that aren’t always obvious. We also discuss ways to work through that grief, recognize when it becomes complicated, and lean on your team for support.
04:12 | What is Clinician Grief?
10:02 | Types of Losses
10:22 | Loss of a close relationship with a particular patient
12:56 | Loss due to a professional's identification with the pain of family members
13:56 | Loss of one's unmet goals and expectations and one's professional self-image and role
18:47 | Loss related to one's personal system of beliefs and assumptions about life
21:30 | Past unresolved losses or anticipated future losses
23:29 | The death of the self
25:44 | Coping
Tags: CoreIM, Medical Education, Clinician Wellbeing, Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Complicated Grief, Coping With Grief, Medical humanities, medical ethics