{"id":16120,"date":"2025-12-21T02:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/physician-grief-and-patient-loss-navigating-the-emotional-toll-of-medicine\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:40:10","slug":"physician-grief-and-patient-loss-navigating-the-emotional-toll-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=16120","title":{"rendered":"Physician grief and patient loss: Navigating the emotional toll of medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cDoc, I\u2019ve seen enough doctors. I only trust you. I want you to do my knee replacement and fix my heart.\u201d I heard the conviction in his voice when I heard these words from this patient. Sitting across from me was a 76-year-old army veteran I had cared for over two decades. He had seen<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/physician-grief-and-patient-loss-navigating-the-emotional-toll-of-medicine.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/physician-grief-and-patient-loss-navigating-the-emotional-toll-of-medicine.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Physician grief and patient loss: Navigating the emotional toll of medicine<\/a> originally appeared in <a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">KevinMD.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/physician-grief-and-patient-loss-navigating-the-emotional-toll-of-medicine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full article at source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDoc, I\u2019ve seen enough doctors. I only trust you. I want you to do my knee replacement and fix my heart.\u201d I heard the conviction in his voice when I heard these words from this patient. Sitting across from me was a 76-year-old army veteran I had cared for over two decades. He had seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}