When my hospice patients try to kill me.

It’s only happened twice.

It was nothing I said or did. Sometimes hospice patients hallucinate. Might be the meds or the illness or terminal agitation. Sometimes it seems to me it has to do with memories. For instance, a number of my patients have relived their experiences in WWII. Those who saw the worst combat occasionally have a very bad time of it as death approaches.

Or… The occasional patient is prone to violent outbursts and when his usual filters break down because of a terminal illness...