How do Physicians Grieve?
In a healthcare system and profession where we encounter a barrage of patients not all with good outcomes, information, loss of self, identity, and many other things, how do we as physicians grieve? Medicine teaches us to NOT show our emotions, and many physicians keep grinding away neglecting self care, and also where we are on an emotional scale.
Losing a patient is not easy at all. It stays with us.
Chronic diseases with poor outcomes--it stays with us and we feel for our patients.
There is so much to grief, and it does not just happen with death but also other points in life.
-We discuss identifying grief and how it can show up in more than just tears.
-How to reconnect/destress.
-Labeling emotions.
-Getting help.
Rev. Anne-Marie Zanzal, M.Div is a graduate of Yale Divinity School. She is a motivational speaker, ordained minister, bereavement counselor, conversationalist, spiritual wanderer, later-in-life lesbian, change maker, blogger, author, a northerner living in the south and trying to figure it all out.
She is the author of Authentic Peace and reachable on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
