Diagnostics Hospice Physical Exams 
Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 6, 2023
As an EBM and diagnostic reasoning obsessive, I often see this as a 2X2 table with the patients knowledge in the columns and the doctors as the rows: Most commonly, both doctor and patient know when the end of life is near — square A. Occasionally, these visits are more difficult and frustrating than sad.
Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 6, 2023
As an EBM and diagnostic reasoning obsessive, I often see this as a 2X2 table with the patients knowledge in the columns and the doctors as the rows: Most commonly, both doctor and patient know when the end of life is near — square A. Occasionally, these visits are more difficult and frustrating than sad.
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