Why Good Palliative Care Clinicians Get Fired

JAMA. 2025 Apr 14. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.4353. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Abby R Rosenberg^{1

2}, Elliot Rabinowitz^{1

2}, Robert M Arnold³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Supportive Oncology, Division of Pediatric Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.

PMID: 40227696
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.4353

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses why palliative care clinicians may be fired despite good job performance.