KevinMD December 6, 2023
After 32 years working as an ICU nurse, I believed I had developed a strong capacity to confront death alongside my patients. I had become accustomed to the challenging scenarios: co-morbidities, multi-system organ failure, emergency intubations, ventilators, pressors, central lines, art lines, failure-to-thrive cases, code blues, and the grim sounds of ribs cracking during CPR.
It was not uncommon to witness families desperately shouting, “Do everything,” even when there was little left to do but hope and pray for a peaceful passing.
I had even faced my own health scares, such as being diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine mammogram, which, luckily, had no symptoms. I underwent a lumpectomy and radiation, leaving me with a distorted and disfigured left...
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