KevinMD August 20, 2024
Health care providers dedicate years to rigorous education and training to optimize medical care, aiming to heal and treat illness. However, historically, there has been a significant gap in training regarding the transition from a treatment-focused approach to focusing on providing comfort in the face of serious illness and death. This leaves health care professionals unprepared to navigate the complexities of end-of-life care. Despite their good intentions, health are providers lack the courage to face the reality of serious illness and accept the limits of medicine. Every life inevitably concludes, despite the best efforts made. Sometimes medical providers persist in treatments that offer no or limited benefit, hoping to save a patient they know cannot be saved or cured. I...
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