Balancing emotions and reason at the end of life
Before you can even form a thought, emotions are influencing your judgments.
-Zimmerman and Lerner
It’s 9am on a Monday, and our palliative care team circles a table to prepare for the workday. Before us is a list of names, each representing a patient and his or her needs, support system and care team. Many are referred to us because they are suffering — be it pain, agitation, emotional distress, existential crisis …
