Finding compassion for the choice a patient made
Yesterday my friend Sophie asked me to accompany her to a Miami hospital intensive care unit to see her older brother, Guillermo. He’d been admitted the previous night with seizures and cardiac arrhythmia.
Joined by my husband, we made our way to the ICU. When she saw Guillermo lying immobile, swollen and unresponsive, with a breathing tube in his mouth and other tubes snaking into his chest from IV poles, Sophie …
Finding compassion for the choice a patient made
