Division
Gulf Coast
Hospital
Tulane Medical Center
Document Type
Prose/Poetry
Keywords
Grief, critical care, wellness, infertility, women's health, palliative care
Description
I wrote this piece after going through six years of infertility while practicing as a hospitalist and palliative-care doctor. I realized over time that I was pushing my own grief to the sidelines in order to focus on my medical work and that, ultimately, I would need to break this cycle in order to make peace with everything I had been through. Now that I am responsible for training fellows in a palliative-care program I have thought much more about the demands we place on doctors and the necessary space we should be allowing for them to process personal loss.
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Comments
First Place Winner, Prose and Poetry