He wasn't.
he should have had the discussion with your dad and not you.
*shrug* Dad's 83, and was suffering a temporary ALC. The doc assumed that this was prima facie evidence that he's incompetent.
What the doc couldn't see was that the day before he was as articulate and sharper than 99% of the 30 year olds out there.
Ultimate result? A liter of normal saline and several glasses of liquids later, he's back. Simple dehydration.
Nevertheless, for cardiac arrests in the hospital, approximately 10% ... survive to discharge.
Sounds about right. I taught my students that only about 5% of the people they would do CPR on 'in the wild' would survive.
It is reasonable to discuss the chances of recovery, the probability that a person will survive a heart attack or ever be able to come off the ventilator.
Yeah. If we'd have had any actual discussion, that would have been reasonable. The doc seemed only interested in getting a DNR order.
*sigh* And today he spiked a fever. They’re sending him back to the hospital.