Caring for Each Other’s Sons
In this narrative medicine essay, a palliative care physician composes letters in her head to the mothers of aging veterans and to the physician who may one day care for her son as a way to speak for patients who have no one to speak for them.
Authors
- Jessi Humphreys (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5067-5212)
Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA
- Published
- 2026-04-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.5111
- Primary Topic
- Family Support in Illness
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00