When should we start having a discussion about palliative and end of life care?
Many of us are learning and refreshing our knowledge of critical care and vent management, but how about acknowledging that one of the most meaningful aspects of the art of medicine is simply to bear witness to, and ease the suffering of our fellow humans?
So much energy of modern western medicine is fixated on achieving a cure, and so many of us are trained nowadays to follow an algorithm to …