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Elaine Schattner

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How to Avoid Death in the ICU

being a patient, decisions, health, medical ethics, Medical Lessons, palliative care

It was sometime in April, 1988. I was putting a line in an old man with end-stage kidney disease, cancer (maybe), heart failure, bacteria in his blood and no consciousness. Prince was on the radio, loud, by his bedside. If you could call it that…

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