Word: thielman
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Other patients also face difficult choices because hospices don't usually offer pricey procedures such as dialysis, radiation or chemotherapy--even when designed merely to palliate symptoms. George Thielman, a retired printer from Chicago, didn't want to stop life-prolonging dialysis after a cancerous kidney was removed and the other began to fail. "Ultimately, he died in a nursing home, a place none of us wanted him to be," his daughter Betsy says. "We were always operating in crisis mode...
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