This Hidden Brain story highlights the lasting impact of a physician's compassionate approach to delivering a terminal diagnosis. Years after learning from Dr. Joe Seibert, nurse practitioner Kimberly Godsey witnessed his kindness firsthand when he cared for her mother.
When Kimberly Godsey was training to become a nurse practitioner, a physician taught her how to deliver painful news with compassion. Years later, his lesson showed up in her own life.This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else.
It was an average day until they visited a patient experiencing nausea and abdominal pain. When the pair left the room, Seibert told Godsey the woman's diagnosis. It was terminal pancreatic cancer.Then Seibert did something she'd never seen a physician do before. It was a specific way of easing the pain, for both the patient and her loved ones.
As soon as Seibert hung up the phone, he asked his assistant to schedule all the tests and follow-ups the woman would need. It's a process that normally takes weeks, but the assistant scheduled the appointments within an hour.When they went back to the patient's room to share the diagnosis, the woman received the news with all her tests scheduled, and her husband by her side.
A few years passed and as Godsey went on to care for her own patients, she kept the doctor's lesson in the back of her mind.In 2014, Godsey's mom, Pat Montgomery-Kane, began experiencing extreme fatigue and abdominal pain. Then one day, Godsey got a call from Seibert, who had become her mother's primary care doctor."And he said, 'Hey Kim, I just saw your mom. Are you coming to her appointment tomorrow?'" Godsey recalled. She had not planned to be there.
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