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editorial
. 2001 Oct 15;7(3):181–190. doi: 10.1177/159101990100700301

Table 1.

Physician’s Psychodynamic Process Caused by Devastating Failure

1) Intellectualization and searching for procedural mistakes
2) Emotional measures trying to recall:
a)  the image of the physician as a competent specialist
b)  the motivation that made the physician want to become a specialist
3) Finally work through grief focusing on new patients seeking treatment.