RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Boy Scouts for Henry
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 79
OP 80
DO 10.1370/afm.373
VO 4
IS 1
A1 Allen, Richard E.
YR 2006
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/4/1/79.abstract
AB “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.