How Does it Feel to Lose a Patient? Dr. Lucy Doyle has worked with MSF in DRC and the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya. Most patients’ deaths are anticipated by their physician. The doctor may observe a constellation of findings leading to a particular lethal diagnosis, and the physician prepares the patient as well as him or herself for this impending loss. This is similar in the field and at home, though in the field it hurts more to watch someone die of something that might have been treated easily here in the US.

How Does it Feel to Lose a Patient?

Dr. Lucy Doyle has worked with MSF in DRC and the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya.

Most patients’ deaths are anticipated by their physician. The doctor may observe a constellation of findings leading to a particular lethal diagnosis, and the physician prepares the patient as well as him or herself for this impending loss. This is similar in the field and at home, though in the field it hurts more to watch someone die of something that might have been treated easily here in the US.

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