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Offer Hospice Patients a Smile.
Hospitals are busy places to work. The work is fast paced, and never seems to stop. For most physicians, the work ends when the work is done, or until you fall over, whichever comes first. So as a consultant, when … Continue reading
Posted in The Truth About Health Care
Tagged DNR, health care, healthcare, Hospice, hospital administration, medical blog, medical humor
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Code Status and Living Wills. . . And Why They Might Not Matter.
If you’ve ever been admitted to a hospital, you (hopefully) were asked questions about your “code status”. Though it was likely not put in those words, patients are routinely asked what they would want to have done if there were … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow Natural Death, Code status, DNR, living will, living wills
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CPR in Flight
Docs are docs, and unfortunately, try as I might, I can’t stop being one just because I put on a printed Hawaiian shirt and hop on a plane. For many of us, there will come that moment, when the … Continue reading