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What are the most powerful last words you heard from a patient?


December 19th, 2022

Thank you. (from a dying patient and dying patients family who's family member passed on.

August 15th, 2023

the patient had sudden cardiac death and was in a coma. The last words his relatives told me "No, we don't want him to be an organ donor."

The next time I saw them, "We wish he had been an organ donor."

March 10th, 2023

Thank you for being so kind and staying with me every time I think of those words I tear up
Even now as I am writing

February 2nd, 2023

THANK YOU...and God bless you. And sometimes, just a touch of your hand from a patient. Sometimes a touch of gratitude speaks louder than words.