“Luz” walks into the intensive care unit alone. She is slight in stature, timid and wide-eyed, wearing an oversized Red Sox sweatshirt that makes her appear even smaller. As the palliative care chaplain, I await her at the bedside of her dying husband, “Julian.” He was rushed to the intensive care unit by ambulance in[…..]
Sarah Byrne-Martelli
Inpatient chaplain for the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine and serves on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care.
