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Mourn the Dead, Fight for the Living: Healthcare Workers Discuss Grief and Losing of Patients

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In this episode of Banter at the Bedside, we talk about one of the most misunderstood parts of working in healthcare: how grief and dark humor often exist side by side.

Healthcare providers meet people on the worst days of their lives — moments filled with loss, anger, shock, and heartbreak. In those spaces, laughter sometimes shows up too. Not because the pain isn’t real, but because humor can be a way to survive it.

ICU teams and a palliative care physician share honest stories about death, end-of-life care, delivering devastating news, and the emotional weight of being the…

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