#115 Hope: At the Bedside Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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Can You Give Up Your Hope?
Doctors don't like to be wrong, so when people talk about things happening that we think is very unlikely, we feel the need to correct them. So simply fighting against unrealistic hopes is not likely to be successful. There has to be something beyond it to strive for in the conversation. When I see people in the ICU, everybody's like, the family doesn't get it. And the family says that doctors all say he's going to die, but we can't give up. We're hopeful.
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