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- Published on: 22 March 2016
- Published on: 22 March 2016
- Published on: 22 March 2016A fundamental change in mindset is required.Show More
Dear Editor,
The articles by Dr Reynolds, and Drs Baverstock and Finlay helpfully illustrate 3 significant gaps in the professional development component of training for many hospital doctors.
Firstly, as a medical profession we often collude with the view of modern western society that death equates with failure. The old adage of the 3 certainties in life being birth, death and taxes, is quoted, but ignor...
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None declared. - Published on: 22 March 2016Coping with death of neonatesShow More
Dear Editor,
This articles highlights the emotional response of resident doctors to a death.I would like to pen down my experience of neonates with adverse outcome.
As a young resident doctor i used to suffer a lot in csae of neonatal death in the unit , for many a days the mood used to be off and parents wailing used to haunt me.Often after a neonatal daeth I found difficult to face parents. Years later a...
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