Learning to care for dying's forgotten
- Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Surviving friends and family of a person who dies often go through deep grief. Ker_vil/Shutterstock.comIn most U.S. medical schools, lessons about death naturally focus on the care of the dying patient. But there is another group of people to whom health professionals need to learn to attend: the dying patient’s family and friends. In...