Key result
Physician-led end-of-life discussions with family members should maintain focus on the patient's final wishes to support the family's emotional healing and self-forgiveness.
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Editorial
Highlights the emotional challenges and importance of patient-centered end-of-life discussions when physicians care for their own family members.
This essay describes one physician-daughter’s experience with self-healing and self-forgiveness with end-of-life care decisions that she made for her own mother and how physicians should have discussions regarding end-of-life care with the family members of their patients, without losing focus of what the patient would have wanted in those final moments.
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Veena Krishnan (2025) studied this question. Physician-led end-of-life discussions with family members should maintain focus on the patient's final wishes to support the family's emotional healing and self-forgiveness.
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