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. Reza Estakhrian/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Reza Estakhrian/Getty Images The practice of palliative care is changing under the pandemic: Doctors and nurses…
By Clare Wilson Decisions on end of life care are being rushed due to the coronavirus outbreakVincent Kalut / Photonews via Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic is forcing people to confront dilemmas around how much medical care should be given at the end of life. The emergency situation means doctors and patients are having to…
On a typical busy day at the Seminole Family Medical Clinic in Seminole, Texas (population, 7386), Leila Myrick, MD, PhD — who’d moved to the rural town 5 years earlier after graduating from Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta — was about to see her first real case of measles. Until then, she’d only seen
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