Opinion: Palliative care needs tweaking in the coronavirus era
“This is my fault. I’m the one who got her sick,” my patient’s son tells me via video call. “And I saw the pictures on the news. I saw what they’re doing to the bodies in New York, piling them onto trucks.”
Although he is miles away from where I sit in Boston, he feels terrifyingly close. His eyes, unblinking, take up most of his allotted square on my computer screen. His suffering is so intense, the pain in his eyes so overwhelming, that I look away for a moment — and immediately feel ashamed for doing it. I realize I can no longer think clearly and draw on the empathetic statements I’ve become accustomed to using in conversations like these.
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