A Mother, A Son, A Psychiatrist and Grief

Nov 11

In today's hectic medical world, not many physicians have - or make - the time to mourn with grieving patients and families. Here's a different story, full of heart, meaning and revealing many facets of giving care.

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Susan MacLeod

Susan MacLeod is a Nova Scotian artist writing and drawing about health care issues. Her humorous book, Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care, follows her nine-year journey shepherding her mother through a callous long-term care system. This inspired her interest in end-of-life and grief issues.

https://www.susanmacleod.ca/

A Mother, A Son, A Psychiatrist and Grief

Drawings done in the dark during the film, In the Realm of Death & Dreaming

GRIEF