When Your Favorite Patient Relapses: Physician Grief and Well-Being in the Practice of Oncology
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Article
The following article details one physician’s聽personal experience seeing his patient relapse, and discusses the grieving聽process of physicians. The experience raises issues and emotions of grief, futility, exhaustion, guild, and the existential aspects of being a physician.
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Effects on Clinician Health and Well-Being
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Physician
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