Palliative Care for a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought palliative care to the forefront of internal medicine. As the novel coronavirus makes more patients seriously ill, with common symptoms including acute shortness of breath, physicians have reason to turn to those already expert in this difficult subject.
In an interview with ACP Hospitalist, CAPC Director Dr. Diane E. Meier, describes how palliative care expertise and resources are, and can be, applied to the current COVID-19 crisis.