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What to Do When a Patient Has a 'Do Not Resuscitate' Tattoo

by LeoJiWoo on 12/2/17, 8:34 PM with 4 comments

• by ColinWright on 12/2/17, 8:48 PM

  Submitted many times, to very little discussion. Multiple sources, you may care to look at the stories from them all:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15832229

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15831290

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  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15818693

• by DanBC on 12/2/17, 8:44 PM

  It's really important to have proper discussions around what you want to happen if you're incapacitated and need medical attention.

  Do you want to be resuscitated? Do you want to be intubated and hook up to breathing machines? Do you want to be fed by tube? How long do you want to be in that state?

  Most people avoid these discussions, putting their families into really difficult positions at times when things are hard enough.