title: Goodbyes.
abstract: When my patients die, I am reminded always of all they taught me during our time together. Over the years, I have begun writing clinical obituaries to better celebrate their lives, to inform staff of their passing, and as a means to teach colleagues and students about a healthy way, as physicians, of dealing with patient deaths.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. aog@med.unc.edu
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goldstein
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014956:Writing