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#Palliative #MedPeds educator, scholar, clinician. Passionate ➡️ impact of #cognitivebias, #ableism, #holistic care in #MedEd
Nov 2, 2020 9 tweets 3 min read
I am a #palliative care doctor.

I am caring for multiple patients dying of #Covid.

When I meet with families, I always ask, “tell me about your loved one- what do they love when they are not sick in the hospital?”

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I have recently struggled to ballast my own emotions when the response is, “oh, they are so social.”

I hear about the daily breakfasts with friends, the joy of meeting up with loved ones, the “never met a stranger”.

“Just last week we went out for steaks and he was fine.”
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