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To: trisham

You are quite welcome.


160 posted on 04/30/2012 4:26:08 PM PDT by the808bass
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To: the808bass
Doctors rarely overestimate life expectancy.

I have seen doctors argue patients are not hospice appropriate and refuse to sign a hospice order only to have the patient die without hospice care less than 24 hours later. Additionally, even when the doctors know the patient is terminal, they frequently do not wish to have the conversation with the patient and simply wait for a hospital case manager to talk the family or patient into it after multiple hospitalizations in a brief period of time.

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161 posted on 04/30/2012 4:35:04 PM PDT by the808bass
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