Honors College Thesis
 

Dealing with a Modern Crisis: Physicians and End of Life Care

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  • As medicine in the United States has progressed, physicians have been posed with a unique task of shepherding patients into the end of their life. This research sought to determine the effect this has on physicians in the form of what has been coined “professional grief.” In this, we look at preparation through medical school and residency then support once acting as a practicing physician. In order to analyze the experiences of physicians with professional grief, I performed a literature search and conducted interviews with current and retired physicians. This yielded results that demonstrated a lack of preparatory learning activities at both the medical school and resident levels and lack of subsequent support once practicing. However, physicians have found ways to cope such as community, religion, marriage, and narrative medicine. This demonstrates that this may be a crisis, but it is not an inevitable path physicians must take.
  • Keywords: Physician Mental Health, End of Life Care, Professional Grief
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  • 2022-05-28 to 2022-06-02

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