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24.06.2019 | From the Inside
The number needed to mourn
verfasst von:
Samuel M. Brown
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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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. …