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Letting go What should medicine do when it can't save you? Dr. Atul Gawande examines the way doctors try to approach death and dying - sometimes well, often inadequately.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoDecember 5, 2018Topics: Compassion Fatigue / Death&Dying / Empathy&Sympathy / PerspectiveKeywords: death / dying / grief / perspective

What makes a life worth living in the face of death In this deeply moving talk, Lucy Kalanithi reflects on life and purpose, sharing the story of her late husband, Paul, a young neurosurgeon who turned to writing after his terminal cancer diagnosis. "Engaging in the full range of experience — living and dying, love and loss — is what we get to do," Kalanithi says. "Being human doesn't happen despite suffering — it happens within it."

Contributor: Francesca CiminoMay 31, 2017Topics: Death&Dying / Grief / Perspective / Provider-Patient Relationship / Resilience / Uncertainty / VulnerabilityKeywords: death / dying / grief

Sight Unseen (must download to hear) Listen to a family's reaction after learning that their son's death had been documented by a photographer embedded with a medevac team in Afghanistan.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoJanuary 7, 2016Topics: Death&Dying / Grief / LossKeywords: death / dying / grief / loss

Murderer in the Mirror Surgeon Scott Eggener recalls the devastation of the first time a patient dies on his operating table.

Contributor: Karlen BaderDecember 29, 2015Topics: Death&Dying / Grief / Guilt & Shame / LossKeywords: death / die / grief / Guilt / shame

Deceit & I RJ Walker performs this emotion-provoking poem about the large role that deceit undeniably plays in our lives and careers as a tool to save others from pain.

Contributor: Karlen BaderDecember 9, 2015Topics: Communication / Conflict / Death&Dying / Grief / Guilt & Shame / ReactionKeywords: communication / death / deceit / grief / Guilt / lie / lying / poetry

Everything Doesn't Happen for a Reason An essay on the importance of grieving and avoidance of "platitudes cloaked as sophistication" from "The Adversity Within" - a blog dedicated to examining the topic of resilience in the face of adversity

Contributor: chucklesnNovember 6, 2015Topics: Communication / Grief / Loss / PerspectiveKeywords: compassion / grief / loss / Resiliency

Getting Grief Right by Patrick O'Malley Common knowledge is that people go through stages of grief - progressing from one to the next. Not only is this an oversimplification, but providers' assumption that this is how grief "should" be processed may cause our patients harm.

Contributor: Adam SapersteinJune 10, 2015Topics: Death&Dying / Grief / Guilt & Shame / LossKeywords: death / grief / Guilt / healing / loss

"Still Point": A Mediation on Mothering a Dying Child - Emily Rapp The struggles and emotions experienced parenting a child with Tay-Sachs disease.

Contributor: AdminJanuary 8, 2015Topics: Death&Dying / LossKeywords: child / emotion / frustration / future / grief / grieving / hope / life / loss / pediatrics

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