Laura Vater: Grief in Medicine: The Weight of Pronouncing Death
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Laura Vater: Grief in Medicine: The Weight of Pronouncing Death

Laura Vater, Gastrointestinal Oncologist at Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, shared a post on X:

“No one teaches us what to do with the grief we feel in medicine.

How to drive home after pronouncing a patient, stepping over the empty wrappers on the floor after the code. How to sit with your family at dinner when part of you is still standing in that room.”

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