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Author(s) -
Henry Bair
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the permanente journal
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.445
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1552-5775
pISSN - 1552-5767
DOI - 10.7812/tpp/18.283
Subject(s) - medicine , medicalization , perspective (graphical) , face (sociological concept) , medical education , psychiatry , social science , artificial intelligence , sociology , computer science
This short story is based on and told from the perspective of a patient the author encountered as a medical student. The story explores the thoughts of an elderly patient, who is hospitalized because of multiple organ failure, as she contemplates the voluntary refusal of food, fluid, and antibiotics. The patient weighs these options in light of her beliefs and experiences, and in the face of seemingly futile medicalization.
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