Key result
Clinical terminology creates profound emotional tension with lived language during personal experience of pregnancy loss.
May prompt reflection on language as emotional shield in loss; leaves open whether narrative training improves empathy in miscarriage care.
In this narrative medicine essay, a maternal-fetal medicine physician trained to use clinical terms for developmental stages of pregnancy as an emotional stay against an uncertain outcome experiences tension between clinical and lived language during his wife’s miscarriage.
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Luke P. Burns (2026) studied this question. Clinical terminology used as an emotional shield by a maternal-fetal medicine physician created profound tension with lived language during his personal experience of his wife's miscarriage.
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