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Jolly-Leek6809 t1_j4ykeq2 wrote

ED doc here. So often I see patients that have no chance of long term survival, might die in a day, might die in a week or a month. I am always clear with the family that what is best for the person is comfort and nothing aggressive. 9 times out of 10 the family chooses to make the patient full code no matter how much I emphasize the definite lack of any future quality of life. So often a patient will come in with paperwork indicating that they are DNR and family will show up and make them full code anyways. It’s entirely depressing to see

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New-Negotiation7234 t1_j4yov4h wrote

Extremely depressing. People don’t understand how much pain and suffering happens because of futile measures to keep ppl alive. Also the lack of basic understanding and science. For example someone I talked to recently had a friend that had a very rare form of anal cancer. No one has ever survived with this cancer but her friend was determined. People don’t understand it’s not just the primary type of cancer you have but what stage it is that makes it incurable.

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