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Typical damn day. I am running behind, swilling lukewarm coffee, and whittling away at the tower of charts and messages the nurse has stacked on my desk. I peep around the corner to survey the crowded waiting room, and I recognize every dependable name and complaint on the morning roster.

A family meeting has been scheduled over the lunch hour so that I can meet a patient's two sons who are visiting from out of town. They have left a list of items for me "to consider" before we gather. Scrawled on the back of a coffee-stained envelope are the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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