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. 2023 Mar 14;329(10):795-796.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.0461.

Cradling Hope

Rose McKeon Olson  1
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Cradling Hope

Rose McKeon Olson. JAMA. .
No abstract available

Plain language summary

In this narrative medicine essay, a physician recounts her family’s experience with critical illness and death and how she came to appreciate both the health care team’s perspective and the family’s perspective regarding when to have hope and when to let go.

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