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Life on the Slippery Slope: A Bedside View of Treating Incompetent Elderly Patients
Author(s) -
Niemira Denise
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3563361
Subject(s) - choking , medicine , cognitive dissonance , psychology , nursing , social psychology , anatomy
Physicians are practicing in an age of cognitive dissonance, doing much for fragile elderly patients in the short run, even if there is little they can do in the long run. In such a setting, how can one determine what counts as good care?