There is a reluctance to go, writes a physician in the BMJ:
“There’s a bit of a reluctance to go,” the author, Bruce Arroll of the University of Auckland, told the Health Blog in a phone interview yesterday. “You may not know many people there. You may not think it’s appropriate. But I think the opposite “” the family is honored that you’re there.”








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