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Discussing Life Expectancy With Older Patients

Posted on Monday, March 12, 2012

In a recent post, I laid out a question to readers — about whether and how physicians should discuss the prognosis among patients whose shortened life expectancy is the result of their already long lives…(Read the rest and view comments at Scientocracy)

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