Working Through Loss: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Physicians’ Grief

Sarah Burm, Tanya Bierer, Victoria Luong, Aruna Dhara, Lara Hazelton, Stephen Miller, Anna MacLeod, Office of Continuing Professional Development and Medical Education, Dalhousie University, Research and Innovation, Nova Scotia Health, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University, Department of Family Medicine and Co-Director of the Medical Humanities Program, Dalhousie University, Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University

Qualitative Health Research

Published online on October 31, 2025

Abstract

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Although grief is an unavoidable aspect of the human experience, it remains largely unspoken in the workplace, including healthcare. Physicians, in particular, minimize their grief due to professional norms and broader societal discourses, often viewing ...