"I walked into the intermediate care unit for the first time, a second-year student entering a ward filled with patients suffering from severe disease and debilitation. Most suffered from a panoply of illnesses obscuring any single impending cause of death. Many were dying from diseases with widely recognized risk factors: patients who smoked heavily now ventilator dependent, a morbidly obese patient dying of heart failure, a patient with alcoholism suffering with liver damage. It seemed I was walking in at the end of a story...."Β
http://www.ecmaj.ca/content/early/2011/09/26/cmaj.110630.full.pdf
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