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Grief on the Front Lines Audiobook Summary

For readers of Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee–a timely, vital exploration of the burnout, grief, depression, and trauma that America’s healthcare system engenders among doctors, nurses, and medical workers.

Practicing medicine is traumatic: coping with the death of a patient, sharing a life-changing diagnosis, grieving futility in the face of a no-win situation. The emotional burden placed on doctors, nurses, and other healthcare practitioners is profound…and yet their suffering is often displaced, dismissed, or unrecognized.

Here, Rachel Jones breaks the silence, daring to imagine a future where every healthcare worker is provided with the right tools to process grief, the space to integrate trauma, and–most importantly–the knowledge that they’re not alone. Drawing from the latest research and more than 100 interviews with healthcare professionals across different specialties, backgrounds, and institutions, Jones identifies how US medicine fails its workers–and how it can do better.

Speaking with urgency about the systemic shortcomings that contribute to widespread depression, burnout, suicide, and PTSD among physicians and nurses–a culture of stoicism, the pressure of 80-hour workweeks–Grief on the Front Lines shares the stories of everyday healthcare heroes and offers a glimpse into the educational programs, retreats, therapeutic offerings, and peer support networks already building a hopeful new culture of medicine that cares for its own.
 

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Grief on the Front Lines Audiobook Narrator

Henriette Zoutomou is the narrator of Grief on the Front Lines audiobook that was written by Rachel Jones

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Grief on the Front Lines Full Details

Narrator Henriette Zoutomou
Length 9 hours 11 minutes
Author Rachel Jones
Category
Publisher North Atlantic Books
Release date April 28, 2024
ISBN 9781623178239

Subjects

The publisher of the Grief on the Front Lines is North Atlantic Books. includes the following subjects: physician burnout, emt, becoming a doctor, end of life care, medical residency, palliative care, ethics in medicine, healthcare, rethinking healthcare, books for nurses, books for doctors, physician suicide, burnout, compassion fatigue, hospice, compassionate healthcare, covid, covid-19, health, mental health, self help, death, health and fitness, death and dying, grief, medical books, self help books, mental health books, health books, self development books, self improvement books, psychology books, grief books, Health & Fitness, Health Care Issues, Psychology, Mental Health The BISAC Subject Code is HEALTH & FITNESS, Health Care Issues

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The publisher of the Grief on the Front Lines is North Atlantic Books. The imprint is North Atlantic Books. It is supplied by North Atlantic Books. The ISBN-13 is 9781623178239.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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