Grieving to Grieve

As the physician leader for Schwartz Center Rounds at City of Hope, I recently facilitated a panel of clinicians that spoke to the topic "A loss that lingers". As all the panelists reflected on their stories and shared them with the audience, it quickly became apparent that some of them had not addressed their own feelings around their stories for a long time, the rounds that day for some individuals being the very first time that they were having to face these emotions. It was evident that their personal grief over these patient losses had been buried somewhere deep inside them for years, summoned by fate on this date to give it due justice and necessary closure.

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