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Posted by denitzablagev on March 10, 2013 · 2 Comments

When I was in Boston, I had a patient with a brain tumor and two adult sons. She had a malignant, progressive brain tumor and had been unresponsive for months. Her prognosis was poor. One son, I’ll call him Peter, thought she would have wanted to be DNR/DNI: if her heart stops, if her breathing … Continue reading →

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