TY  - JOUR
T1  - From dark night to gentle surrender: On the ethics and spirituality of hospice care
AU  - Barnett MD
Y1  - 2011/06/08
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2011.796
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2353
EP  - 2358
VL  - 305
IS  - 22
N2  - 
In From Dark Night to Gentle Surrender, Patricia Thompson explores those moments when medicine has seemingly failed. From her years as a hospice nurse and based on the writings of St. John of the Cross, a 16th-century Spanish mystic, Thompson builds a framework for the personal and professional growth she believes is necessary to care for dying patients. The book consists of a preface, introduction, and 6 chapters that guide medical professionals through the “discernment process . . . [needed to] balance between a professionally executed technical task—bolstered by mental application of learned skills—and a sense of when ultimate reliance on such tasks needs to be released” (p 123).

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.796
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.796
ER  -