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Falling asleep

Cliodna O'Connor


At the end of a junior doctor's busy week on call, she clerks in an elderly patient in the Emergency Assessment Unit. Examinations are done, bloods taken and oxygen adjusted. The family go off for lunch - in good spirits under the circumstances. But later the conversation on the ward turns to questions about DNACPR, as the patient grows tired and increasingly breathless.

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