Advance Care Planning:
Case 3 Discussion
The use of this expression is as vague as saying, "I don't want any heroics or extraordinary treatments" or, "Pull the plug if I'm ever in ...." If these types of comments in advance care planning discussions are not clarified, they are not helpful. For some patients being a "vegetable" means being in a coma, for others it means not being able to read.
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