Sam was my patient for nine years — her death raised a dilemma all GPs must face
I have often contemplated how best to grieve for a patient.
What sort of feelings should we allow ourselves to have for someone who is neither family nor friend, but with whom we’ve had a very intense relationship?
Recently this came up for me again.
I returned from leave to find a message in my inbox that Sam, my 43-year-old schizophrenic patient, had died.
