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Medics face trauma when patients suffer, die

A destabilised medical worker especially in a surgical procedure poses the risk of a medical error. [iStockphoto]

“Shock, confusion, and disbelief” is how Dr Michael, a young medical trainee doctor, describes losing his first patient.

The loss left the 24-year-old fourth-year student in a local medical school, speechless, helpless, feeling guilt and not knowing how to break the bad news to the mother of the baby.

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