Published: May 21, 2019
We need an unbiased look at why we get some things in healthcare so wrong
I am inside intensive care, looking surreptitiously through a glass window and preparing myself. I see a patient crowded by tubes, machines and stricken relatives. The figures in front of me tell an unmistakable tale of disaster. Everyone knows the patient is dying; apparently, they’ve been waiting for oncology to give the word to pull out.
“It’s not good”, the intensive care physician says. “We’re thinking she’s had enough. But we waited for you as it’s a chemotherapy-induced complication – the family needs to hear you say it’s time.”
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