Helen T. D’Couto

Physician

Hands reach out to each other, millimeters apart on the screen but cruelly, never able to touch.

But the sheer burden of providing comfort ...  to more than 950,000 dying Americans is soul-crushing to our burned-out health care workforce.

Forcing my COVID patients to die alone is inhumane — and unnecessary

Registered Nurse Kat Yi holds an iPad up to Eduardo Rojas so that his wife Angelica Rojas inside the ICU at Providence St. Jude Medical Center Christmas Day on Friday, Dec. 25, 2020 in Fullerton, CA. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Helen T. D’Couto

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Forcing my COVID patients to die alone is inhumane — and unnecessary

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