Six months ago I posted a story about a demented 94-year-old patient who’d fractured her hip. She’d lost more than thirty pounds in the preceding months and had already had a collarbone fracture from a previous fall.
Her son wanted her to be made comfort care only, and avoid a trip to the operating room since she was likely within six ...
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