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

And at the same time, like medically, like families can go through real trauma, like literal PTSD from like participating in medical care or having like their loved one get care that wasn't in line with their values or that they ultimately thought like, oh, that did cause them unnecessary suffering.

So it's like, there's always a trade-off, you know, like it's like,

It can hurt everybody.

Totally.

When I was in medical school, which was 20 years ago, they were just starting to teach, like, hey, make sure you attend to the emotion in the room.

So, like, if someone is crying, pause, allow some space.

It'll feel like a long time to you.

Doesn't feel like a long time to them.

And then you can even say...

I see the tears in your eyes and just leave it.

Or you can say, this looks like it's feeling really sad.

You know what I mean?

Like we were learning those skills.

It was really interesting because they were teaching it to us like they were skills because they actually are.

And then you have a little mnemonic about like attend to the emotion in the room, but it's real.

Like it's you, it becomes part of you.

I think, you know, there was a study of doctors that said half of doctors said they had given a prognosis that was rosier than what their actual medical opinion was, which is so interesting.

It's like even in the hospital, it's like you sort of make this assumption of like what hope means to people, like hope means longer life.

So I'm going to say that I'm going to keep them on the outer bounds of what could be possible.

But I think what many people respond to, like what I've ended up learning is a really good way to share with patients or even frame it to yourself is thinking, A, about like prognostication, for example, as a range.

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