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Culture Shift: Building an Awareness of Our Mortality

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Journal Cureus
Date 2018 Mar 2
PMID 29492358
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Abstract

The end of life discussions can often be difficult for a multitude of reasons. Our culture is pervasive with ideas of mortality, and that medicine can avert this human constant. Medicine, as a field, must embrace our limitations so that we can engage in honest discussions with the families and the patients regarding the end of life care.

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