“The most fragile Covid-19 patients are not unlike hospice patients: There is no cure for their condition,” wrote author and nurse Theresa Brown in a recent opinion piece for the New York Times. As a hospice nurse, Brown wrote, she learned to accept the inevitability of death and considered it a privilege to care for people in that moment. She believes viewing death “through a hospice lens” may help clinicians caring for severely ill COVID-19 patients feel less burdened by their deaths. (New York Times opinion, 5/19/20)
