Navigating Difficult Conversations in Medicine

a history of hypertension and diabetes who is here with abdominal pain

end-stage pancreatic cancer that has metastasized, multiple recent hospitilizations for complications like infection and dehydration, here with worsening fatigue and shortness of breath

a history of hypertension and diabetes who is here with fevers and dysuria

heart failure with reduced ejection fraction on milrinone, multiple recent hospitilizations for shortness of breath, here with trouble breathing and shortness of breath

pneumonia

failure to thrive