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Published Online: 2010, pp. 115–213

Forty-two Years of Death and Dying: Lessons Learned

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A call from the “cancer floor” sets a second-year psychiatric resident on a 42-year journey in treating patients with terminal illness. Far from being an unremittingly sad experience, working with patients who are approaching death helped refine a sense of focus on the importance of the day-to-day experience.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy
Pages: 115 - 126
PubMed: 20617786

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Published in print: 2010, pp. 115–213
Published online: 30 April 2018

Keywords:

  1. death
  2. dying
  3. mourning
  4. power of listening
  5. power of being
  6. staff support
  7. palliative care

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Samuel Klagsbrun, M.D. [email protected]
Executive Medical Director, Four Winds Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Katonah, NY.

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Mailing address: 800 Cross River Road, Katonah, NY 10536. e-mail: [email protected]

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