Treatment of the "irremediable" elderly patient.
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Treatment of the "irremediable" elderly patient.
Here is a title as full of questions as a pomegranate is full of seeds. How does one treat the irremediable ? If the irremediable is treated, is it irremediable ? Is "to treat" less than "to remedy"? And why the contiguity of "irremediable" and "elderly"? Are all elderly irremediable ? Are all irremediable elderly ? These questions concem attitudes. They are important because attitudes rather t...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.3.5879.526