Palliative Medicine

Critical Care   

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For example, what do you do when someone requests aggressive, life-prolonging treatments but then is not receptive to elements of day-to-day care in t...

For example, prolonging life-sustaining measures as they "wait for a miracle" of an unrealistic outcome. 

Should we consider this as a unique point during goal of care discussions, separate from code status, comfort measures only, etc.?