The Grief Kit: Two Future Doctors on Loss, Healing, and Human Connection
Release Date: 04/07/2026
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info_outlineIn this moving episode of the Jim Bratton Podcast, Jim sits down with Rose Sulentic, and Tracy Tang, two non-traditional medical students whose lives and careers have been shaped by deeply personal experiences with grief.
This conversation explores the emotional landscape of anticipatory grief, healing through writing, medicine’s human side, and the creation of a remarkable Grief Kit designed to help others process loss.
This is a thoughtful, vulnerable discussion about what grief really looks like—not always visible, but always present.
Grief Kit Links.
Flipbook (best reading experience):
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/696653ed67.html#page/1
Behind the Scenes Video https://youtu.be/yE3oDhQpgSU
About the Guests
Tracy Tang is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch and holds an MBA from the University of Oxford. Prior to medical school, she practiced as an occupational therapist. She is the founder of the Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series, an initiative dedicated to integrating the humanities into medical training, and serves as a co-editor and contributor to the Grief Kit.
RoseSulentic, MPH, is a medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch with a background in public health and epidemiology. She was a co-director for the Humanities in Medicine Lecture series, and is the editor and contributor to The Grief Kit, a zine designed to help individuals navigate grief and loss.