Tag Archives: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Doctors often struggle to show compassion while dealing with patients
I was standing at my patient’s bedside. Mike Venata was having chills with a temperature of 103. Sweat covered his balding scalp like dew, then coalesced and rolled down past his staring eyes. Just 20 minutes earlier, a specialist had informed him that he hadmetastatic pancreatic cancer and could expect to live less than six months. […]
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