Christopher Kerr
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“During that time, I silently and uneasily witnessed the practice of “signing off,” shorthand for when doctors stop following a terminal patient. We not only abandoned critically ill patients, we did so by speaking the worst words anyone could say to someone suffering and in need: “There is nothing left that we can do.” From a medical perspective, there was nothing more to be diagnosed or treated; from the point of view of a doctor in training, nothing to be learned.”
― Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning in End of Life Dreams
― Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning in End of Life Dreams
“plea: we need to bring doctors back to the bedside, to their roots as comforters of the dying rather than as mere technicians trying to extend life at all costs.”
― Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning in End of Life Dreams
― Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning in End of Life Dreams
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