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- Title
commentary.
- Authors
Smith, Martin L.
- Abstract
The author comments on the case of Robert, a board-certified hospital chaplain assigned to the cancer center of a large community hospital in the Midwest, who was asked by the daughter of a patient, who died, to talk about her mother's last days. According to him, Robert should presume that the daughter has emotional and spiritual needs related to her mother's dying and death. He thinks that Robert can still be able to stay comfortably within the boundaries of not disclosing any of the patient's protected health information.
- Subjects
MIDWEST (U.S.); CONFIDENTIAL communications; HOSPITAL chaplains; COMMUNITY health services; HOSPITALS; CANCER patients
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2009, Vol 39, Issue 1, p12
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1353/hcr.0.0111