Pricey Technology Is Keeping People Alive Who Don’t Want to Live

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As an ICU physician, I’ve used technologies like breathing machines and feeding tubes to save lives that would have been lost just a few decades earlier. But I’ve also seen the substantial costs, both human and financial, of some medical advances. Many patients die protracted deaths while being kept alive by machines – which, research shows, they would not have chosen had there been adequate communication about their options beforehand.

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