Dr. Crippen: “It is the peculiar strains of the job. Doctors feel responsible for their patients in a way and at a level that other carers cannot understand. When a patient dies, most doctors feel a moment of guilt and responsibility, even though their management of the patient has been faultless. Difficult to describe the sinking feeling you get when, on a Monday morning, your secretary says ‘could you phone the coroner – there has been an unexpected death.'”
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