Dr_D-R-E t1_j4yz86p wrote on January 19, 2023 at 6:02 AM

Reply to comment by No_big_whoop in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga

MD here

I’ve done CPR on enough people to know that’s the last way I want to spend my final moments in this world, naked in a room full of strangers, broken ribs, vomiting on myself and aspirating half of it back into my lungs so that I have like a 15% chance of recovering in extreme agony to be intubated and die shortly thereafter through the same process that eventually doesn’t work.

kevinhaddon t1_j4z4cuo wrote on January 19, 2023 at 6:59 AM

Name checks out. DRE? Better make it three!