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Insensible losses: when the medical community forgets the family

Pierre Elias1

  • 1Pierre Elias (pierre.elias@duke.edu) is a medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and served as a TEDMED research scholar. He is currently a visiting researcher in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. This article was written with the thoughts, guidance, and mentorship of physician Bob Wachter, to whom a great deal of thanks is owed. Without Wachter, the author notes, he would not have seen the path to better medicine that lies hidden beneath tragedy. Names in this essay were changed to protect patient privacy.

Health Affairs (Project Hope)
|April 8, 2015
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