Embracing the platinum rule in palliative care: Treating patients the way they want to be treated

Embracing the platinum rule in palliative care: Treating patients the way they want to be treated 
Anschutz, by Tari Advani, MD; 2/26/24 
One of the first take aways from this journey, for me, in a mid-career directional change from emergency medicine to palliative care was a move away from the golden rule and towards the platinum rule. Treat patients the way they want to be treated, not the way we want to be treated. It is so simple, it allows people to exist in their own context, with their own histories and their own wishes. And, we, as caretakers, take the kind of care of them that they want. Where had that idea been during the past 20 years of my career? How many situations had I judged, wrongly, based on my own preferences, not the preferences of the patient.