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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? We think there are some cases, certain kinds of illnesses or conditions or operations, where people have the surgery and never get out of bed again. She has advance dementia. Eric: Yeah.