You are caring for a 35-year-old man whose severe workplace injuries necessitate bilateral below-the-knee amputations. How can you anticipate that the patient will respond to this news?
A) The patient will go through the stages of grief over the next week to 10 days.
B) The patient will progress sequentially through five stages of the grief process.
C) The patient will require psychotherapy to process his grief.
D) The patient will experience grief in an individualized manner.
Ans: D
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Loss of limb is a profoundly emotional experience, which the patient will experience in a subjective manner, and largely unpredictable, manner. Psychotherapy may or may not be necessary. It is not possible to accurately predict the sequence or timing of the patient's grief. The patient may or may not benefit from psychotherapy.
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