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we end up caring about them.

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

if you die in a hospital, the person caring for you in your last days, hours, and minutes will be a nurse.

“He’s got a fever!” I said, as if it was the first fever in the history of the world

C.M.O. means “comfort measures only”: they were withdrawing care

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.