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or because they need more chemo, or because they’ve relapsed

autologous stem cell transplant

a no-win situation where compassion routinely gets hijacked by grief

On TV or in the movies, dying patients are usually tended to by physicians. But if you die in a hospital, the person caring for you in your last days, hours, and minutes will be a nurse.

I asked him to follow my finger with his eyes and to push up and down against my hands while I pushed back. These are basic tests of neurological function

When I left she said the same thing she had said to me the last night her husband was my patient: “I love you.” He died later that day.