Forty-two years of death and dying: lessons learned.
A call from the "cancer floor" sets a second-year psychiatric resident on a 42-year journey in treating patients with terminal illness. Far from being an unremittingly sad experience, working with patients who are approaching death helped refine a sense of focus on the importance of the day-to-day experience.
Klagsbrun
Samuel
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Winds Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Katonah, NY, USA. sklagsbrun@fourwindshospital.com
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003643:Death; D006117:Grief; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology