title: From here to eternity. How do physicians learn to let go? Part 1.
abstract: In the next installment of this series, I'll suggest how we might proceed once we've acknowledged that death may be the next appropriate treatment. Did God just invent death and dying on a bad hair day--kind of a final "Take that!"? Or, is the last of life as rich in promise and purpose as the birth with which it began?
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bartlow
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010358:Patient Participation; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000523:psychology; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*; D028761:Withholding Treatment