Gitanjli (Tanya) Arora, MD
Attending Physician, Palliative Care at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
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I really like working with parents. It is a partnership. There is something magical that happens when everybody is thinking about another human being together.
A doctor’s journey to palliative care: I wanted to be the one to kneel down to talk to the child, their siblings
Distrust: We have given parents a lot of reasons to think there is not a partnership there. We don’t communicate as we should: we don’t ask for permission; we aren’t transparent with information.
A physician on learning how to understand and consider when the family is ‘hoping for a miracle.'
