A good friend of ours at Medical Community is Dr. Jessica Israel Senior Vice President of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at RWJ Barnabas Health in New Jersey. She wrote an important piece in the Harvard Business Review published today. It's important to learn how families are coping with not being with their loved one's at bedside for weeks or months at a time, especially if they are in ICU suffering with COVID-19. The attending physicians also have the difficult task of conveying updates to family members over the phone, no hugs, no hand holding. Doctors feel the pain of the patients and families and Dr. Israel recounts her personal experience below.
A good friend of ours at Medical Community is Dr. Jessica Israel Senior Vice President of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at RWJ Barnabas Health in New Jersey. She wrote an important piece in the Harvard Business Review published today. It's important to learn how families are coping with not being with their loved one's at bedside for weeks or months at a time, especially if they are in ICU suffering with COVID-19. The attending physicians also have the difficult task of conveying updates to family members over the phone, no hugs, no hand holding. Doctors feel the pain of the patients and families and Dr. Israel recounts her personal experience below.
