title: Your patient has died … but your work is not done.
authors.affiliation: Columbus Hospice , Columbus, Georgia .
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rallo
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D020878:Device Removal; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations