Block has a list of questions that she aims to cover with sick patients in the time before decisions have to be made: What do they understand their p… - Atul Gawande

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Block has a list of questions that she aims to cover with sick patients in the time before decisions have to be made: What do they understand their prognosis to be, what are their concerns about what lies ahead, what kinds of trade-offs are they willing to make, how do they want to spend their time if their health worsens, who do they want to make decisions if they can’t? A decade

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