News From Annals Of Internal Medicine, 15 Dec, 2008

Family Members Want Straight Talk from Physicians Regarding Poor Patient Prognosis When a patient is incapacitated by serious illness, family members become surrogate decision makers. However, physicians may feel reluctant to discuss a particularly poor prognosis with surrogates for fear that it could extinguish all sense of hope.

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Filed under: Primary Care on December 19th, 2008