What Steps Should Be Taken When Medicine Can’t Save A Life?

Writing for The New Yorker, Atul Gawande explores the central medical issues involved in treating patients with terminal conditions. He asks the question: “[I]f you were the one who had metastatic cancer – or, for that matter, a similarly advanced case of emphysema or congestive heart failure – what would you want your doctors to do? The issue has become pressing, in recent years, for reasons of …

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