Patients Dying Fast, And Far From Family, Challenge Practice of Palliative Care

The practice of palliative care is changing under the pandemic: doctors and nurses are learning new ways to help patients and families communicate their treatment goals and make decisions about end-of-life care.

For one family who lost both mother and father to the coronavirus, palliative care clinicians helped them face “the awful, awful truth.”

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Will Stone