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Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine 8/2019

24.06.2019 | From the Inside

The number needed to mourn

verfasst von: Samuel M. Brown

Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine | Ausgabe 8/2019

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Excerpt

I still see her sometimes, when I walk by room 501. She was not even 25; her first child had only been in her womb for 18 weeks, a bright dream of life. And she died, under our care, from Staphylococcal endocarditis. For 10 days, we did everything we could to save her. It has been a decade, but I cannot forget that we lost her. We clinicians are prone to second-guessing ourselves after tragedy, but her fate was beyond our control. I mourned her anyway, mourn her still. We clinicians all of us have experiences of loss that sit, uneasily, in our souls. The stories mount over the course of a career. …
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Metadaten
Titel
The number needed to mourn
verfasst von
Samuel M. Brown
Publikationsdatum
24.06.2019
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Intensive Care Medicine / Ausgabe 8/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05669-z

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