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Doctor holding hands with woman patient
Monday, May. 05, 2008

Open quoteThe culture has a built-in bias that everything that can be done will be done. Close quote

  • DR. TOM ROSENTHAL
  • of U.C.L.A. Medical Center, on difficulties of pursuing 'slow medicine,' an approach that encourages less aggressive care in the final months of an elderly patient's life
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