PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Adam Goldstein TI - Goodbyes AID - 10.3122/jabfm.19.4.416 DP - 2006 Jul 01 TA - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine PG - 416--417 VI - 19 IP - 4 4099 - http://www.jabfm.org/content/19/4/416.short 4100 - http://www.jabfm.org/content/19/4/416.full SO - J Am Board Fam Med2006 Jul 01; 19 AB - When my patients die, I am reminded always of all they taught me during our time together. Over the years, I have begun writing clinical obituaries to better celebrate their lives, to inform staff of their passing, and as a means to teach colleagues and students about a healthy way, as physicians, of dealing with patient deaths.