Episode 41: Touching the Sacred

I speak with Lauren Martin, hospital chaplain, palliative care and spirital team provider, husband and friend about our years working through innumerable hospital crises, from the sudden death of a trauma patient, to comforting the grieving families of patients succumbing to a terminal illness. We discuss the paradox of balancing raw trauma with the sacred beauty of standing with dying patients at the very threshold of life and death.