What we are saving when we keep a father alive in the ICU
He was critically ill. During one conversation, his wife told me that their young children believed their father had gone out of town for work and would be home soon. They were too young, she felt, to understand why he…
He was critically ill. During one conversation, his wife told me that their young children believed their father had gone out of town for work and would be home soon. They were too young, she felt, to understand why he was really away, or that he might not return.
Until then, I had been thinking about how to keep him alive. After that conversation, I found myself thinking about the children …
What we are saving when we keep a father alive in the ICU
