Opinion: The art of the ‘deceased note’: A physician grapples with documenting patients’ final moments
My grandmother died in the hospital, alone, the day after she was “found down” at home by emergency medical services.
I lived near my Nani, as I called her but, even though I am a physician, was not allowed to see her after she had been admitted to her local hospital because of the strict, Covid-related no-visitor policy. I spent most of the evening sitting in my car in the hospital parking lot, paralyzed.
