TY  - JOUR
T1  - “My mother was 67 . . . ”
AU  - Larson EB, King J
Y1  - 2012/08/13
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2568
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1132
EP  - 1132
VL  - 172
IS  - 15
N2  - 
It is easy to focus on the physician's stark prediction about the urgent need for surgery. Making predictions like this is perilous and often humbling. This narrative especially speaks to the value of time and how we need to communicate with patients, find out about their preferences and values, find out how they interpret what we say. This is important for major surgery, of course, as in this example, but nowhere is this more important than for our older patients and their preferences for late life care.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2568
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2568
ER  -