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In a Johns Hopkins Survey, 90 percent of doctors said they’d rather die by cardiac arrest than be resuscitated. Only a quarter of the public feels the same way.

Are Doctors More Likely to Refuse CPR?

Evidence that doctors approach their own end-of-life care differently from everyone else

Do doctors respond to the prospect of their own deaths differently from the way other people do? That’s what Dr. Ken Murray, a clinical assistant professor of family medicine at USC, suggested last November in a heartfelt, provocative, and immensely popular essay called “How Doctors Die.” He’s followed that up this week with “Doctors Really Do Die Differently,” which includes some interesting data to back up his previous argument. Here are the highlights:

Do doctors’ wishes regarding end-of-life care differ from ours? Murray cites a mid-20th century study of Johns Hopkins medical students showing that 65 percent had prepared legal instructions d… Continue Reading


Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/are-doctors-more-likely-to-refuse-cpr/260381/