When is a patient too ill or old for medicine?
Doctors should take into account the patient’s life expectancy and whether the drug is likely to provide much benefit in the months or years the patient has remaining.
Not so cut and dry in these litigious times. Let’s say you stop BP medications in someone with terminal cancer. They have a hypertensive stroke. Is the doctor liable?
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