Medscape December 30, 2025
Petrina Craine, MD, emergency medicine physician based in Atlanta, felt the air leave her lungs when she learned her mother had been diagnosed with an incurable cancer.
“Even though I’m a physician who has delivered this kind of news countless times, nothing prepares you to hear this diagnosis from someone that you love so dearly,” Craine said. “My mother’s diagnosis was the first time I truly felt the collision of professional knowledge with personal love for a beloved one.”
When aging parents face health challenges, from diagnoses such as cancer and heart disease to declining cognition and mobility, a disproportionate amount of caregiving responsibility tends to fall to the doctor in the family. While healthcare professionals may be more equipped...
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