Death of doctors.

Doctors, death and dying.

Death and the doctors. Essay review.

JOHN McMANNERS, Death and the Enlightenment. Changing attitudes to death among Christians and unbelievers in eighteenth-century France,'Oxford University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. vii, 619, £17.50. JOACHIM WHALEY (editor), Mirrors ofmortality. Studies in the social history of death, London, Europa, 1981, pp. vii, 252, £19.50. There is no more universal social fact than death ("never send to know fo...

Doctors' emotional reactions to recent death of a patient: cross sectional study of hospital doctors.

OBJECTIVES To describe doctors' emotional reactions to the recent death of an "average" patient and to explore the effects of level of training on doctors' reactions. DESIGN Cross sectional study using quantitative and qualitative data. SETTING Two academic teaching hospitals in the United States. PARTICIPANTS 188 doctors (attending physicians (equivalent to UK consultants), residents (eq...

The causes of death of South African doctors and dentists.

Doctors at war: life and death in a field hospital.

Excerpt from jacket] Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hardhitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices and in which routines designed to normalize experience have the unintended...