Futile care

#1 Dinosaur: “Obviously one key is to improve our prognostic skills while remaining ever vigilant about limiting truly futile care. But how to go about it? How about this: At the time of each hospitalization, the admitting physician makes a guess — say on a scale of 1 to 100% — about what he thinks the patient’s chances are of living to be discharged from the hospital.”

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