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Confirmation.

Reflections of a Grady Doctor

Dual board certified. Just like that ultra ordinary day in Jury Duty back in 2012. Today, as I was sitting alone quietly eating lunch at a soul food counter between rounds, guess who came up behind me and wrapped me in a hug? It was her. After all these years. An assistant professor and full time faculty member.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. Clinicians certified her as terminally ill because of the V said. And I knew it was a matter of time before this came along. That would be. So you are terminally ill.

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