Oncologists can feel isolated when dealing with grief following a patient death; at the recent ASCO23 meeting, several speakers offered ways to tackle this.
Oncologists commonly suffer"professional grief" when a patient dies — in fact, it is a"familiar, daily reality for the oncology clinician," says one — but when it is also accompanied by a sense of emotional isolation, it can lead to reduced well-being and burnout.
"At the end of every fourth Friday, he closes his community practice office early and all the oncologists, everyone, stays for a while, and they have a list of the people who have died," Lyckholm explained. As a group, they go through the list and reminisce about the patients who died, recalling funny incidents or things that person had said.Amplified During Pandemic
"I am still getting used to calling colleagues, and paging colleagues, and realizing that they just aren't there," the nurse practitioner said."They aren't there because they either left or died. I just didn't expect that." After these sessions, the researchers saw a decrease in missing orders from 30% to 2%, while patient satisfaction increased from 93% to 97% as a result. Interestingly, there was also a reported rise in efficiency, practice quality and safety, and respectful professional behaviors.
They used the survey on 373 clinicians at the University of Michigan Health System, and found that"the number one thing was getting rid of the administrative work" — that it doesn't have to be done specifically by physicians or other providers, but that other people can do it.Both of these have since been the focus of an elimination and reduction process to give clinicians more time to do what matters most to them and their patients.
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