I wonder if it is any different for a lawyer, accountant, or financial advisor….or business owner?

“A few years ago, a colleague called to tell me our friend and fellow psychiatrist had collapsed at home and died of a cardiac arrest. She was in her early 70s, without any previously known medical illness. Within hours, a group of shocked and grief-stricken psychiatrists gathered at her home office, faced with a predicament: We had no idea who her patients were, much less how to contact them….Therapists are largely unprepared for the impact of their death or sudden incapacity…. Every licensed therapist should have a will for his or her professional life, updated at least twice a year, that sets out provisions to care for his or her patients in the event of death or sudden incapacitation.”

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