The difficult conversation everyone must have
During my first year of medical school, in the last year of my father’s life, his oncologist had a difficult discussion with him and my mother- the decision to become do-not-resuscitate (DNR). I remember my mother was taken aback, my father was relieved and I was deeply saddened. However, when I got the call that my father may not make it out of the hospital this last time, I was …
