title: Coping with a Terminal Diagnosis: Perspectives from Inside the Patient's Home.
abstract: This vignette describes the evolving and intimate relationship between a medical student and his patient, and their shared journey in accepting the patient's terminal diagnosis. The news of her diagnosis touched all parts of her life, and this account explores those effects on a very personal level.
authors.affiliation: a School of Medicine & Dentistry , University of Rochester , Rochester , New York , USA.
authors.forename: Jayson R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Baman
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005190:Family; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Aging/older adults; family caregivers; hospice; palliative care