Therapeutic nihilism is inadequate in geriatric medicine

Patients' wishes should guide therapeutic considerations in the face of options and necessities, particularly when an intervention carries the risk of death. Therefore, in the medical management of the young and the old, everything should be attempted as long as the patient has a strong will to...

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Autores principales: Nau, Roland, Großmann, Marius, Rohde, Veit, Knopf, Elmar, Dörges, Joachim, Larsen, Jörg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8364937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34429971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4148
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author Nau, Roland
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spelling pubmed-83649372021-08-23 Therapeutic nihilism is inadequate in geriatric medicine Nau, Roland Großmann, Marius Rohde, Veit Knopf, Elmar Dörges, Joachim Larsen, Jörg Clin Case Rep Case Report Patients' wishes should guide therapeutic considerations in the face of options and necessities, particularly when an intervention carries the risk of death. Therefore, in the medical management of the young and the old, everything should be attempted as long as the patient has a strong will to live. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8364937/ /pubmed/34429971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4148 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Therapeutic nihilism is inadequate in geriatric medicine
title Therapeutic nihilism is inadequate in geriatric medicine
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title_short Therapeutic nihilism is inadequate in geriatric medicine
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topic Case Report
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