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When Sensitivity Is a Liability

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  • Jay Baruch, M.D.

By the time the young man, having overdosed fresh out of rehab, arrives in the ED, EMS has been working on him for half an hour with no success. After further futile efforts, the ED physician can only wait with the father and aunt for the man to die a second time.

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Identifying details have been changed to protect the family’s privacy.

Author Affiliations

From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI.

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