Artificial Intelligence in Palliative Care: An Integral Look into the Future of Our End
In a cramped broom closet–become–conference room, I huddled beside a husband sobbing as I had to tell him his wife was dying. As the physician, my job was to apply the best of modern medicine to give her the best chance of surviving. But her liver infection had spread throughout her body so quickly...
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Zusammenfassung: | In a cramped broom closet–become–conference room, I huddled beside a husband sobbing as I had to tell him his wife was dying. As the physician, my job was to apply the best of modern medicine to give her the best chance of surviving. But her liver infection had spread throughout her body so quickly that all the medicines, machines, and minutes pouring into her could not stop her from slipping away from us. “I am so sorry, but I have to ask, ‘What would she want us to do?’” “I want her to live...” was the only answer |
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DOI: | 10.1515/9780271094922-015 |