From doctor to family: Witnessing both sides of end-of-life care
We all have those moments in medicine when we know that care has become more futile. Then we do everything in our power to educate, support, gently guide, and give permission to patients and families. There are moments that treating for a cure goes against our tenet to “first do no harm.”
I never would have imagined that I would be on the family side of these debates. I had a …