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Art of Medicine

Jun 2025

When Poor Practice and Poor Communication Make Grief Worse

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Abstract

This 20-panel comic visually explores how a health care professional’s scope of practice violations, poor bad news communication, and professionalism lapses exacerbated one clinician-artist’s embodied experience of pregnancy loss and grief.

 

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Citation

AMA J Ethics. 2025;27(6):E457-477.

DOI

10.1001/amajethics.2025.457.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure

Author disclosed no conflicts of interest.

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