Thursday, November 30, 2006
Racial differences in end-of-life care
A study suggests that black patients are more likely than white patients to prefer life-sustaining care when confronted with an incurable illness or serious mental and physical disabilities.
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In my experience Latinos are most likely to insist upon medical futility. They want their loved ones life to be extended another few days for more torture, tubes, procedures, broken ribs.
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: 12:27 AM
He'd say that blacks have been living off the largess of the working world and just want to suck out every last penny that they can. Or something like that.
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