Doctors sometimes wind up as patients. When facing difficult decisions about the best treatment for themselves and close relatives, what questions do they ask? What risks do they consider? What calculations do they make? Bill Clark, lecturer on medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, and Edward Ahn, clinical fellow in radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, are quoted.
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