A number of elderly patients have died in long-term care homes rather than submit to intensive therapy that might have only made their passing more painful.
It is the worst-case scenario of the COVID-19 pandemic: so many seriously ill patients that doctors have to decide who gets access to a limited number of intensive-care beds and ventilators.
And who is deprived of the potentially life-saving treatment.
But as the number of Canadians made critically ill by the virus ticks up, some patients or their families are actually foregoing entirely the often-harrowing treatment afforded by ICUs and breathing machines…
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