Lessons From the Dying Patient, Part 3: Children and Death and Sudden Death

Course overview

In part three of this series, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD, reviews the specific needs of children in expressing their grief and obstacles clinicians may face in providing compassionate care. In this recording made before she died, Kubler-Ross stresses that healthcare professionals need to be comfortable with their own mortality to support unconditionally those facing the end of life. Kubler-Ross also discusses the differences in patients who have passed away unexpectedly, and how families and clinicians can be supported in the grieving process.