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Just dying: the futility of futility
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- Published on: 19 June 2015
- Published on: 19 June 2015Lost in Clinical Translation: Difficult communication in futilityShow More
Getting your message across to a patient and their family is difficult and fraught with misunderstanding. Aside from not having enough time and patience to explain complex diagnoses and sophisticated treatment plans as well as ensuring that understanding has occurred, English may not be the patient's first language.
As a hospital doctor, even when using non-technical terms, I wonder whether a family member or a p...
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