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Volume 338:1552-1553 May 21, 1998 Number 21
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Loss during Pregnancy or in the Newborn Period: Principles of care with clinical cases and analyses

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Edited by James R. Woods, Jr., and Jenifer L. Esposito Woods. 546 pp. Pitman, N.J., Jannetti, 1997. $34.95. ISBN 0-9655310-0-7.

The loss of a baby, whether by miscarriage, stillbirth, or postnatal death, is as profound a loss as anyone could expect to experience. Anyone involved in the care of pregnant women and their families can attest to the intensity of these experiences. For physicians in particular, training programs have paid inadequate attention to teaching the expected course of bereavement and modeling the skills of counseling for grieving families. This lack of instruction and guidance promotes the discomfort many physicians experience when dealing with pregnancy loss and does little to dispel the notion of the physician as an uncaring technician.

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