Between Algorithm and Presence: The Future of Palliative Care

A Case That Stayed With Me During a recent clinic, I was asked to urgently see a 65-year-old woman with metastatic lung cancer after multiple lines of therapy. For weeks, she had been declining: confused, exhausted, not eating, losing weight, and no longer sleeping. Her oncologist had decided that further cancer-directed therapy wasn’t feasible. When I walked into the room, she was in her home … Continue reading Between Algorithm and Presence: The Future of Palliative Care