TY - JOUR T1 - Boy Scouts for Henry JF - The Annals of Family Medicine JO - Ann Fam Med SP - 79 LP - 80 DO - 10.1370/afm.373 VL - 4 IS - 1 AU - Richard E. Allen Y1 - 2006/01/01 UR - http://www.annfammed.org/content/4/1/79.abstract N2 - “Can we do anything for you?” The question was embarrassing. Henry had been poked and prodded and preserved far beyond his wishes. In a medical system that scorns comfort care, a resident physician is troubled by the case of an elderly man with poor quality of life. An awkward attempt at a Boy Scout service project emphasizes how poorly we comfort the terminally ill despite modern technology and interventionalism. ER -