In the more than 30 years that I have been practicing medicine,the most difficult task for me has been speaking to the familymembers of patients whose health is failing. In the 1970s, therewas less medical technology that I could use to help my patients,but I usually knew the patients, their families, and their mutualwishes. At that time, physicians generally took the lead indeciding what to do, but when we had done all we could do thatwas consistent with both our own sense of the best options andour understanding of what the patient . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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