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Monday, January 25, 2016
Do not resuscitate: DNR
How would you like to leave this world? Almost half of the elderly in the U.S. die in nursing homes or hospitals. To the last moment of their lives, they have a team of health care professionals who are trying to save them AT ANY COST.
Read this thought-provoking post written by Dr. Louis M. Profeta, an emergency physician practicing in Indianapolis. Then decide what you would do at the end of the path.
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death,
DNR,
do not resuscitate
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