Consoling a family whom I’d never met
It’s painful enough to lose a patient. But I found it even more painful to try to console a family whom I’d never met.
Depending on your point of view, the limited patient contact afforded the anesthesiologist is a disappointment or a perk of the specialty. Anesthesiologists are steadily branching out into other areas of perioperative care where lengthier patient/family contact is necessitated but the preop encounter with the anesthesiologist is …
