“I want to die, I want to die,” she repeated over and over as the trauma team stabilized her body. The patient, a female in her late 70s with Parkinson’s disease, presenting with a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the head. It was at that moment I saw the complex cruelty of her situation. The despair in which she found herself and in the manner in which she sought to …
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