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All of this balderdash from opponents of so-called “Obamacare” health care reform about “Death Panels” that will come and put your grandparents to sleep like an injured Chihuahua makes me think about the patients I’ve had to counsel regarding end-of-life issues.

End of lifeI have a wonderful patient who is still struggling, after many years, with her father.  He is, like many men of his era who spent a fair amount of time in the military, the kind of guy who speaks little.  He has outlived his wife, which is statistically unlikely, for she was very ill for a very long time.  He is tired, just plain tired, of medical interventions.  He had a hunk of colon taken out some years ago, and there was something somewhere between normal and cancer on it.  Who knows when he tells his daughter.  Her confusion is expressed to me through tears.

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