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Fulfilling 'three wishes' helps ICU staff honor dying patients

By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – Doctors and nurses in a Canadian intensive care unit found that asking dying patients – or their families – to make three simple wishes, and then fulfilling those wishes, helped bring peace to the end-of-life process and ease grief. “It’s giving a face to a faceless process,” Cullinan, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.

Fulfilling 'three wishes' helps ICU staff honor dying patients

By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – Doctors and nurses in a Canadian intensive care unit found that asking dying patients – or their families – to make three simple wishes, and then fulfilling those wishes, helped bring peace to the end-of-life process and ease grief. “It’s giving a face to a faceless process,” Cullinan, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.