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- Title
Show Code.
- Authors
Shalev, Daniel
- Abstract
'Let's get one thing straight: there is no such thing as a show code,' my attending asserted, pausing for effect. 'You either try to resuscitate, or you don't. None of this halfway junk.' He spoke so loudly that the two off-service consultants huddled at computers at the end of the unit looked up... We did four rounds of compressions and pushed epinephrine twice. It was not a long code. We did good, strong compressions and coded this man in earnest until the end. Toward the final round, though, as I stepped up to do compressions, my attending looked at me in a deep way. It was a look in between willing me as some object under his command and revealing to me everything that lay within his brash, confident surface but could not be spoken.
- Subjects
CRITICAL care medicine; CRITICALLY ill; DO-not-resuscitate orders; HOSPITAL medical staff; PATIENTS; FAMILY relations; PHYSICIANS' attitudes
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2017, Vol 47, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hast.672