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Study: End Of Life Counseling Does Not Actually End Life | In case you were still curious, a new study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine finds that “patients who talk with their physicians about end-of-life care and have an advance directive in their medical record have similar survival rates as patients who do not have these discussions and documents.”

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