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End-of-life discussion, part two
I started a post about “End of Life Discussions”, and it’s taken me awhile to get back to it. Life got busy. But the thoughts have persisted… So, I was sitting in a clinic exam room with my patient, we’ll call her Eleanor, and her husband, we’ll call him Ted. And I launched into my pitch:…
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Discussing end-of-life decisions
Every now and then, in my work as a physician, I have to broach the topic of impending death with a patient. As a doctor who specializes in carrying mostly for people infected with HIV, that used to be a common discussion, and happily, with very effective medications which we now have available, the discussion…