{"id":246178,"date":"2012-09-16T15:41:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T15:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenesis.com\/jerry-and-his-doctors\/"},"modified":"2012-09-16T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T15:41:34","slug":"jerry-and-his-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/pathology\/jerry-and-his-doctors.php","title":{"rendered":"Jerry and his Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every once in awhile I come across another physician blog that tells it like it is without ranting and raving about managed care\/insurance issues, hospital administrators or patients with unmet expectations.<\/span><\/p>

This one comes from an internal medicine resident recounting an experience with a terminally-ill patient and end-of-life decisions, a living will, the needs of patients and the decisions made by an attending physician and a resident physician.<\/span><\/p>

Her experiences remined me of the 3 months I spent as an intern in critical care units.  The discussion, and perhaps, more importantly, enforcement\/following of living wills and the battles that ensue with families, doctors, housestaff, attendings and medical technology in the war against human disease.<\/span><\/p>

For a sobering account and one doctor's piece of mind on this check out:<\/span><\/p>

The only thing I had to do was help Jerry and I failed<\/a><\/span><\/p>


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