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Medical Practitioners' Death Anxiety And The Advance Directive, Daisy Macias, Natalie Macias
Medical Practitioners' Death Anxiety And The Advance Directive, Daisy Macias, Natalie Macias
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This study examined whether there is a correlation between medical practitioner's level of death anxiety and communication about the advance directive. Even though there is a lot of common sense in stating the obvious complexity of issues surrounding end of life, there is also a clear discomfort with accepting the advance directive and the patient's wishes at face value and the underlying reasons for that may lie in the physician's own feelings over death.