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August 2011 Blog Posts (1)

Two Patients, Same Disease, One Choice to Die

This week I had two patients with Stage IV liver cancer.  The first was given two weeks to live, three weeks ago.  He's been fighting the disease, living at home, suffering the pain of the disease and the pain of the treatments.  His family was of some help, but by the appearance of his house, not much.  The house doesn't qualify as a "hoarder" house--but given another year or so, I'm sure it would.

 

We were paged for the unresponsive male.  When we arrived, he had gotten to…

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Added by Todd D. on August 2, 2011 at 6:04am — No Comments

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