Lessons From the Dying Patient, Part 3: Children and Death and Sudden Death

Course overview

In part three of this series, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, reviews the specific needs of children in expressing their grief and obstacles clinicians may face in providing compassionate care. In this recording made before she died, Kübler-Ross stresses that healthcare professionals need to be comfortable with their own mortality to support unconditionally those facing the end of life. Kübler-Ross also discusses the differences in patients who have passed away unexpectedly, and how families and clinicians can be supported in the grieving process.