Hospitals are designed to be places of order. Every corridor, protocol, and procedure exists to reduce uncertainty in moments when life hangs in the balance.
Decisions are guided by training, data, and years of accumulated medical knowledge. Yet even in these environments of structure and expertise.
There are moments when certainty fractures — and when it does, the consequences can ripple far beyond a single patient or family. Such a moment unfolded when George Pickering II was told that his teenage son had suffered catastrophic brain damage and showed signs consistent with brain death. Continue reading…
