Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Mission creep doesn't benefit patients at the end of life

When my father was 88 and the picture of health for his age, he taught me, an experienced physician, an unexpected lesson. We were discussing treatment options promoted by his primary-care physician and other doctors for an aortic aneurysm — a ballooned segment of blood vessel at risk for dangerous rupture

August 22, 2016

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