In this narrative, Dr. Damon Dagnone shares how helping others with grief can be healing. Dr. Dagnone is an emergency physician at Kingston General Hospital and Associate Professor at Queen’s University School of Medicine in Kingston, Ontario. His Humanities Encounters article is published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. It is titled "Facing grief." Full article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.180247-----------------------------------For more stories like this one, get your copy of CMAJ’s Encounters Book. This anthology of prose and poetry of some 100 Canadian authors including Drs. David Goldbloom, Shane Neilson, Allan Peterkin and Monica Kidd, has been specially curated and includes a study guide. https://shop.cma.ca/products/encounters-----------------------------------To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.

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Encounters — An emergency physician heals his grief by helping others

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Encounters — An emergency physician heals his grief by helping others