“In the midst of this global health crisis, it’s easy to forget that there are still those among us living with serious illness. As a palliative care physician and a medical anthropologist, we know that living with serious illness often means coming to terms with difficult information. It means dealing with uncertainty about the future, making it hard to plan ahead. And it means constantly balancing feelings of hope and despair, even vacillating between the two in a single moment.”
Read the full KevinMD piece here (co-authored with Michael Pottash). Artwork by Michael Lane (differentcreatures).