How Doctors Choose End-of-Life
How Doctors Choose End-of-Life no different from the rest of us. When it comes to dying, doctors are ultimately And their emotional and physical struggles are surely every bit as wrenching. But they have a clear advantage over many of us. They've seen death up close. They understand their choices, and they have access to the best that medicine has to offer. The Johns Hopkins Precursors Study asked a group of Doctors about what measures they would have taken at their end - of-life, and the following is the response. Ventilation 87 % No thank you 4% Undecided 2% Yes Feeding tube 77% No thank nof 11% Undecided 5% Yes IV hydration 58% No thank you 18% Yes 11% Undecided CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) 90 % No thank you 5% Undecided 5% Yes Dialysis 87% No thank you 6% Undecided Surgery Pain 80% No thank you Medicine 82% Yes 11% Undecided 10% No 9% Yes 5% Undecided Twitter @PassareInc Facebook facebook.com/passareinc Tumblr passareinc.tumblr.com http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0601web/study.html http://www.radiolab.org/story/262588-bitter-end/ passare.com TM http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/ideas/nexus/ o ㅇ
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