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Discuss their failures and sadness:
Granek, Leeat, Merav Ben-David, Ora Nakash, Michal Cohen, Lisa Barbera, Samuel Ariad, and Monika K. Krzyzanowska. “Oncologists’ Negative Attitudes towards Expressing Emotion over Patient Death and Burnout.” Supportive Care in Cancer 25, no. 5 (2017): 1607–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-016-3562-y.
Doctors do so at their own risk:
Drummond, Dike. Stop Physician Burnout: What To Do When Working Harder Isn’t Working. New York: Heritage Press Publications, 2014.
Improve the patient experience and maintain dignity in the ICU:
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See also Carrese, Joseph, Lindsay Forbes, Emily Branyon, Hanan Aboumatar, Gail Geller, Mary Catherine Beach, and Jeremy Sugarman. “Observations of Respect and Dignity in the Intensive Care Unit.” Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 5, no. 1A (2015). https://doi.org/10.1353/nib.2015.0002.
The sleep deprivation that is a hallmark of a stay in the ICU:
Beltrami, Flávia Gabe, Xuân-Lan Nguyen, Claire Pichereau, Eric Maury, Bernard Fleury, and Simone Fagondes. “Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit.” Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia 41, no. 6 (2015): 539–46. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1806-37562015000000056.
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Durrington, Hannah J., Richard Clark, Ruari Greer, Franck P. Martial, John Blaikley, Paul Dark, Robert J. Lucas, and David W. Ray. “‘In a Dark Place, We Find Ourselves’: Light Intensity in Critical Care Units.” Intensive Care Medicine Experimental 5, no. 1 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40635-017-0122-9.
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Appropriate for maintaining a restful environment:
Weinhouse, Gerald L. and Richard J. Schwab. “Sleep in the Critically Ill Patient.” Sleep, 29, no. 5 (2006): 707–16.
Out of regard for the patients:
Beltrami, Flávia Gabe, Xuân-Lan Nguyen, Claire Pichereau, Eric Maury, Bernard Fleury, and Simone Fagondes. “Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit.” Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia 41, no. 6 (2015): 539–46. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1806-37562015000000056.
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CONCLUSION: COMPASSION AND CORONAVIRUS
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