Recently I met the husband of a patient with a diagnosis of advanced lung cancer. Even though she was young and had been healthy, the disease spread to her bones. I outlined treatment for this incurable illness; choices, goals and side effects. This was a very tough meeting, because by the end we had to discuss time as measured by dollars.
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