Staff Physician, Pediatric Palliative Care
Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Kids
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A physician’s path to palliative care with a focus on how (to help) people make decisions.
How parental decision-making changes over time: growing confidence and a familiarity with how it feels that makes it feel more tolerable
As physicians, ‘we should always be leaving room for the unexpected.’
A physician’s thoughts for a parent who is afraid of making ‘a wrong decision.’
A physician on the power differential between clinician and patient/parent in the hospital: There is such a cost to parents that is not the same for clinicians