[Comment] Grief is not a disease but bereavement merits medical awareness

Our 2007 review in The Lancet1 showed ways in which bereavement is a topic of medical importance, despite the fact that grief, in line with George Engel's famous but often misinterpreted words, cannot be called a disease.2 Since then, developments in scientific knowledge make it pertinent to ask afresh: what do health-care professionals in general and medical practitioners in particular need to know about bereavement?

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