Today I saw a patient who is apart of our home hospice care system. They were in a room at a nursing facility and the person they were sharing a room with was actively dying. It was intense and was only made more somber when I realized how alone she was in that room. No one attending to her or at her bedside. Just me, behind a curtain with my patient, occasionally checking on her to make sure I wasn’t causing any more anxiety. My immediate hope was that her family was on its way but as time went on I came to realize that this was it. This was how it was going to end. She was all alone. I can’t imagine how terrifying that must have been.