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The difference between a conventional healthcare emergency and an epidemic is qualitative as well as quantitative, and this is related to our relationship with death. The above quote is the… Click to show full abstract
The difference between a conventional healthcare emergency and an epidemic is qualitative as well as quantitative, and this is related to our relationship with death. The above quote is the heart-wrenching request of the wife of a 75-year-old patient who is dying while in isolation and on mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). The woman asks the doctor—the only allowed contact with the patient— to ‘take his hand’ and accompany him to the end as she would have done.
Keywords:
death;
death physician;
physician time;
black death;
time covid
Journal Title: European Heart Journal
Year Published: 2020
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Journal Title: European Heart Journal
Year Published: 2020
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