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The Curse of Knowledge Can Lead to Unnecessary Suffering

By April 14, 2020No Comments

Reprinted from Doximity.com

“What is this woman doing on my schedule?” I asked my office staff. I had been looking through the medical records of people I would see in the office to prepare myself, and I found one I did not like. It was the chart for an elderly woman with metastatic breast cancer whose reason for seeing me was “PEG tube request.”

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Illustration by April Brust

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