“In palliative care, healing is thought of as a sense of wholeness. It is not being cured necessarily, but feeling whole.” A patient is healed, that is, not solely by steroids or antibiotics, but also by nature, thrilling conversation, touch, empathy—being made to feel whole, rather than distraught, as she exits doctors’ appointments.
proves my desire for palliative care not wholly insane plus life prior to chronic illness ends, a death, should be respected more and handled with grief mgmt
