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Inviting Doctors to Tell Difficult Truths

by celia | Feb 21, 2013 | healthcare professionals, patients

“There’s almost always, in every medical circumstance, one more thing we can try,” says Dr. Julie Bynum. But less often do we talk openly about whether it’s worth trying. Dr. Bynum is a gerontologist at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and...

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