Well: Pronouncing the Patient Dead

Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 07:50 in Health & Medicine

It was only when I walked into the room and saw my patient still and utterly silent, his tired family sitting around the bed, that I realized no one had ever told me precisely how to declare death.

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