“…The experiences and impact of death on other professional care-givers has been well documented over the years, particularly in nursing fields such as Paediatrics (Stack, 2003), Emergency Care (Briysiewicsz & Uys, 2006: LeBrocq, Charles, Chan, & Buchanan, 2003, Palliative Care (Llamas, Llamas, Pickhaver, & Piller, 2001;Newton & Waters, 2001), Intensive-Care (Lenart, Bauer, Brighton, Johnson, & Stringer, 1998;Pearson, Robertson-Malt, Walsh, & Fitzgerald, 2001) and long-term care settings (Katz, Sidell, & Komaromy, 2001;Rickerson, Somers, Allen, Lewis, Strumpf, & Casarett, 2005;). Doctors have also been researched in terms of how they react to the death of a patient (Redinbaugh, Sullivan, Block, Gadmer, Lakoma, Mitchell, et al, 2003).…”