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When someone dies under your professional care

I'm a surgeon and I lost a patient today during what should have been routine surgery, and I keep replaying every decision wondering if I killed him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The weight of professional responsibility in death can transform natural grief into existential self-interrogation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Death and dying — the physical process?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.