Good Grief & How Healthcare Teaches Us To Bury It

The Gritty Nurse Podcast by Amie Archibald-Varley

Aug 28, 202638:23Health

This week, grief was impossible to avoid — Hayden Panettiere, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen all left us within days of each other, and the collective mourning was loud, public, and completely normal. But what...

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