For loved ones of critically ill patients, hope often trumps understanding of a physician's prognosis

We have virtually all been there, are there now or will be there someday: A loved one is critically ill, and his or her physician is talking to us about the patient's prognosis.

She wants to know how we would like to proceed. She's asking what we think our loved one, hovering in a twilight world,...

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