The patient decides when it's best to go.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.
My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.
A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.
In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
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