In our student-led small-group, we held a dynamic discussion framed by the following questions:

• Reflect on what you would want for a loved one, for yourself, or for a patient as a physician upon a terminal illness diagnosis. 
• What would be your priorities be if you had a terminal disease? 
• At what point do we choose to switch from traditional medical care, where we put ourselves through procedures that reduce our immediate quality of life in hopes of extending our long-term lives, to hospice care, where we focus on making the best out of every day? Have you reflected on when that time would be? What would that look like? 
• What is your understanding of hospice care? Did Letting Go change your perspective?
• How does age play a role? How does SES play a role? 
• What are the ethics of mentioning expensive treatments? 
• How do we teach and incentivize doctors to have these conversations? ACA tried, rebranded as “death panels” 
• What are the pros/cons of hope? 
• How and to what extent should family be involved in the decision making conversations? 
• Do you think that your priorities will stay the same as they are now? Do you trust anyone to know what your answer is now? 
• Do you think that the priorities of you, your loved one and your role as a physician will ever align? Why or why not?