A short video can make a big end-of-life difference

It's hard to talk about end-of-life care, partly because the concept of a "good death" is a weird and sad one to grasp, not only for the person dying, but for their caretakers and doctors as well. A team of researchers wanted to see whether a short video about CPR and intubation could affect a patient's end-of-life preferences. Areej El-Jawahri, instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, led the research.

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