Medical reports about the experience of the dying process and the death of his/her patients

Abstract

Death is conceived differently in every culture, every people has a way to address, study and discuss their concepts. Among physicians, it is no different, for it is part of their profession, specifically the specialties that deal with the terminal patients. The objective of this research was to understand how physicians from different specialties, face imminent or established patient’s death and identify whether there was, in his academic background, some preparation for it. This research is descriptive qualitative approach, cross-sectional. Through a semi-structured interview, 9 professionals from different specialties expressed, in different ways, how they understand death and how they prepare to deal with it. For the later analysis, it was quantified: gender, age and training time. And as for the opened answers, 3 categories were created: 1) How each professional deal with the death of their patient; 2) if there was any kind preparation to deal with their patient’s death (formal or not); 3) Energy’s renovation.