Shock Me, Tube Me, Line Me: An ER Doc Reassesses DNRs
“ In Shock Me, Tube Me, Line Me ,” a Narrative Matters essay in the February 2010 issue of Health Affairs , emergency physician Boris Veysman sets forth his own version of an advance directive and challenges common perceptions about care at the end of life. An excerpted version of Veysman’s essay appears in today’s Washington Post Health and Science section, and it has provoked a vigorous conversation among commenters —just as it did among Health Affairs readers. Veysman recounts the exhilaration he feels after successfully resuscitating an elderly patient, followed by shock when the family appears and informs him that his patient is in the end stages…
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