Dr. Lucy Kalanithi

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Lucy Kalanithi: What Loss Can Teach Us About Living (The Perspective Shift That Changes Everything) · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

But they combine like chaplaincy, nurses, social workers, like doctors or other clinicians together.

And then they take care of your family too.

So like when you walk in the door, they're like, who else is taking care of you?

Who else is with you?

Hey, does this person need something?

It's so incredible.

It's like if you could just dissolve the healthcare system, which Walter Cronkite said is neither healthy nor caring nor a system, you would just like start with palliative care and then just like build everything else around that.

There's a lot of like misunderstandings about what palliative care is, but if anybody's struggling and isn't sure where to turn for that, they're so incredible.

And you could just ask, you'd just be like, can I have a palliative care specialist be part of what we're doing?

Hot Young Widows Club.

Katie's at Camp Kesem.

I think the broad strokes answer is like, don't forget that they're a person.

Don't forget that they're still them.

Think about what you would want in that situation.

You know, I think like we were saying, it's like illness and dying can be sort of so flattening of like your humanity, your complexity.

it's so sort of like undignified, right?

You're like, you become sort of like infantilized, you know, or if you're in a hospital or if you're somewhere else, if you're in a healthcare facility, you're literally naked, you know, you're not even wearing your own clothes.

So just as much as like people can protect your privacy, ask you what's important to you, make things beautiful, like sensually, you know, like there are flowers here, there's music here, like people are touching you, like people are looking you in the eye, like,

I don't know, I could say a million other examples.

I also think like respecting what someone like cares about.

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