Let Grandma go with dignity, and a family’s inability to do so
I can always use money. Regardless of what the public seems to think, doctors are generally not phenomenally wealthy.
So I hate turning business away. But tonight I refused a hospital consult. Why would I do that?
Because.
The consult was for an 88-year old lady with advanced Alzheimer’s Disease. Her sad life was reduced to lying in bed staring at the ceiling. The patient had been seen by 2 other neurologists during …