Fred Meyers thinks so. As chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and director of the West Coast Center for Palliative Education, he has devoted his life to treating seriously ill patients. Taking care of the dying goes with the territory. In general, physicians have not done palliative care well. They reflect society's discomfort with death.
Death is somehow a failure.
Meyers' area of expertise is not merely the technical details of providing medical care for the terminally ill. All rights reserved.