Dr. Rodgers’ Last Lessons: reflections after the death of a mentor

Abstract

The Indiana University emergency medicine family is grieving. We, the residency program directors, are grieving. The Monday morning before Thanksgiving, Dr. Kevin Rodgers, KRodge, a lifelong educator and mentor to most of us, was killed in his home following his overnight shift. Kevin's death has shaken us deeply and we are tired from crying. As emergency physicians, we're supposed to know about death – we see it regularly; we write about it in our literature; we comfort the families of our dying patients. But when it is one of our own – a father-figure – we don't know how to react. We can't compartmentalize this. As a way to try to find meaning out of the senselessness, we've been reflecting on what it means to be an emergency medicine educator.

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