Mindfulness in Medicine @UMKC

Learning Objectives for GRIEF AND LOSS:

1. Describe how healthcare professionals experience and respond to grief and loss during clinical care.

2. Investigate the impact grief and loss have on our personal and professional lives as clinicians

3. Explore healthy approaches to working with grief and loss.

Suggested Readings and Materials to review before this session: GRIEF AND LOSS

• “In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/05/03

• “Pushing Through” by Rainer Maria Rilke [http://www.slowmuse.com/2007/05/01/rilke-pushing-through/]

• “For a Dancer” by Jackson Browne [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jacksonbrowne/foradancer.html]

• “Had I Not Been Awake” by Seamus Heaney [http://littlestarjournal.com/blog/features/a-poem-by-seamus-heaney/]

For further information:

• Beckman HB, Wendland M, Mooney C, Krasner MS, Quill TE, Suchman AL, Epstein RM. “The impact of a program in mindful communication on primary care physicians.” Acad Med. 2012;87(6):1-5.

• Granek L, Tozer R, Mazzotta P, Ramjaun A, Krzyzanowska M (2012). “Nature and impact of grief over patient loss on oncologists' personal and professional lives.” Arch Intern Med 172(12): 964-6.

• Rodenbach RA, Rodenbach KE, Tejani MA & Epstein RM (2016). “Relationships between personal attitudes about death and communication with terminally ill patients: How oncology clinicians grapple with mortality.” Patient Educ Couns, 99(3), 356-363. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2015.10.010

• Shayne M, Quill TE (2012). “Oncologists responding to grief.” Archives of Internal Medicine 172(12):966-7.

• Shanafelt T, Adjei A, Meyskens FL (2003). “When your favorite patient relapses: physician grief and well-being in the practice of oncology.” Journal of Clinical Oncology 21(13):2616-9.