For me, a substantial part of my medical school experience was defined by my mother's mystery illness, revealed with time to be a glioblastoma (a form of brain cancer which is usually fatal). Driven to complete school so she could see me graduate, every experience I had on the wards was colored by my experiences of watching her decline i…
For me, a substantial part of my medical school experience was defined by my mother's mystery illness, revealed with time to be a glioblastoma (a form of brain cancer which is usually fatal). Driven to complete school so she could see me graduate, every experience I had on the wards was colored by my experiences of watching her decline into madness and eventually death.
Someone did tell me about some of the Jewish components of grief, and while I am not religious, I did find that it took a year to really come to terms with it.
The most meaningful activity I could find was sharing insight, from the classmate going through something similar, the Tasmanian mother-daughter couple I met on a wilderness hike, or the patients and their families who dealt with their own losses without being able to even see each other as I started work in the peak COVID era.
For me, a substantial part of my medical school experience was defined by my mother's mystery illness, revealed with time to be a glioblastoma (a form of brain cancer which is usually fatal). Driven to complete school so she could see me graduate, every experience I had on the wards was colored by my experiences of watching her decline into madness and eventually death.
Someone did tell me about some of the Jewish components of grief, and while I am not religious, I did find that it took a year to really come to terms with it.
The most meaningful activity I could find was sharing insight, from the classmate going through something similar, the Tasmanian mother-daughter couple I met on a wilderness hike, or the patients and their families who dealt with their own losses without being able to even see each other as I started work in the peak COVID era.