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Should We Attribute Patients’ Conditions to ‘Old Age’?

Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/should-we-attribute-patients-conditions-to-old-age/

Faustinella is an internist. “I can’t tell my patients the truth any longer because they get upset, as if I were insulting them.” This is what a colleague of mine said after his 85-year-old patient, whom I will call Kathy*, expressed dissatisfaction with the office visit. Attributing her knee pain to degenerative joint disease and […]

Author : News Health

Publish date : 2024-09-07 16:00:00

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