About this episode

This episode explores the grief clinicians experience after losing a patient and discusses coping strategies and support systems.

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 . 🔹 Transcript and Shownotes 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 Find the best disability insurance for you: https://www.patternlife.com/disability-insurance?campid=497840 Our Sponsors: * Check out CovePure and use my code…

People in this episode

Host: Core IM Team

Topics covered

• clinician grief
• patient loss
• coping mechanisms
• professional identity
• team support

Keywords

• clinician grief
• patient death
• complicated grief
• burnout
• secondary traumatic stress

Sponsors

CovePure, ElevenReader, FIGS

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Core IM, Pattern Life

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