I Told My Patient She’d Never Go Home. I Was Wrong.

Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

I perched at the side of my patient’s bed to give her the devastating news: Her lungs were so scarred that she required the highest level of oxygen we could give without a breathing tube — a level only available in the hospital. And I did not........

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