Elena Kraus
Elena Kraus
The experience of pregnancy loss is a relatively common, but seldom discussed event in many families' reproductive years. Accordingly, this occurrence is one of the most common poor outcomes treated in healthcare. The narratives in this iss...
Raymond G De Vries
Raymond G De Vries
These stories of fetal death make us aware of the several losses that attend a miscarriage and-equally important-they highlight the personal, cultural, and organizational constraints that make difficult the kind of caring responses needed t...
Held and Heartfelt: Compounded Grief in Healthcare Professionals' Experiences of Pregnancy Loss [0.03%]
纠结与真心：医疗保健专业人员在妊娠丢失经历中的复杂悲伤感
Kathryn R Grauerholz
Kathryn R Grauerholz
The loss of a pregnancy can be an emotionally traumatic experience and the support or lack of support from professional care providers and systematic barriers within healthcare organizations impacts the grieving trajectory. Nearly half of t...
Tammara Ruiz Ziegler
Tammara Ruiz Ziegler
There are more than 800,000 pregnancy losses in the US each year but the numbers do not explain the lived experience of loss. Twelve authors shared deep and descriptive accounts of their losses and as a commentator, I elevated specific them...
Pregnancy Loss [0.03%]
妊娠丢失
Elena Kraus
Elena Kraus
This symposium includes 12 narratives from people who have experienced pregnancy loss at any stage of pregnancy or during labor and delivery. Stories of pregnancy loss are seldom shared, and bereaved parents must navigate their grief, anger...
Editors' Note [0.03%]
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James M DuBois,Ana S Iltis,Heidi A Walsh
James M DuBois
The Right to Be Childfree [0.03%]
无孩权
Andrea Eisenberg,Abram L Brummett
Andrea Eisenberg
In this manuscript, we start with a real life account of an Ob/Gyn experience with a young patient from the childfree movement requesting permanent sterilization. A narrative ethics approach invites the reader to experience the encounter in...
Undisclosed Placebo Trials in Clinical Practice: Undercover Beneficence or Unwarranted Deception? [0.03%]
临床实践中隐瞒安慰剂试验：暗中行善还是不必要的欺骗？
Daniel Edward Callies
Daniel Edward Callies
A placebo is an intervention that is believed to lack specific pharmacological or physiological efficacy for a patient's condition. While placebo-controlled trials are considered the gold standard when it comes to researching and testing ne...
Yolonda Wilson
Yolonda Wilson
James Groves opens his 1978 foundational article, "Taking Care of the Hateful Patient," thusly, "Admitted or not, the fact remains that a few patients kindle aversion, fear, despair, or even downright malice in their doctors." Groves unders...
Aliza M Narva,Erin T Marturano
Aliza M Narva
Multidisciplinary healthcare workers describe interactions with "difficult" patients that have shaped their lives and their clinical practice. The narrators recall navigating the push-pull of empathy and frustration to forge therapeutic pat...