The Dying Patient

  1. Philip W. Smith, MD
  1. Nebraska Medical Center; Omaha, NE 68198-5400(Smith)

    Family

    He squeezed

    my hand!

    The nurse

    called it

    reflex grasp, but

    we hope you

    are in there.

    You could not

    have realized,

    when you signed

    the living will,

    what it would …

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    1. Ann Intern Med August 3, 1999 vol. 131 no. 3 224
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