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When healthcare teams avoid difficult end-of-life conversations

Our ICU team had a patient die last month where we all knew the family wasn't ready to hear what we needed to tell them, and we kept postponing the conversation until it was too late for them to say goodbye properly, and now we're all carrying this guilt but not talking about it.

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Your team kept putting off a hard conversation until it was too late, and now you all quietly carry the guilt.

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