Death Is Not A Failure - Medika Life

Death Is Not A Failure - Medika Life

In my conversation with Dr. Elaine Chen of Rush University Medical Center, who is both an Intensive Care and Palliative Care physician, I asked her how being a Palliative Care specialist has helped her as a Critical Care physician. The part of her answer that affected me the most was this statement: “Death is not a failure.” I can safely speak for most people when I say that we went into Medicine to help people heal, to help prevent people from …