“We should be opening the door with our questions, but not forcing patients through it. … Our job is witnessing, exploring and lessening their loneliness. If it’s benign and rich with content, let it go. But if it brings up serious old wounds, get real help — a psychologist, a chaplain — because in this area, we physicians don’t know what we’re doing.”
– TIMOTHY E. QUILL, physician and expert on palliative care medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center (reported by The New York Times)
