<p>A palliative care physician helps a cancer patient cope with her coming death, while her oncologist struggles to give up treatment. Read by author Diane Meier, <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0517">originally published in May 2014</a>.</p>

A palliative care physician helps a cancer patient cope with her coming death, while her oncologist struggles to give up treatment. Read by author Diane Meier, originally published in May 2014.

<p>A palliative care physician helps a cancer patient cope with her coming death, while her oncologist struggles to give up treatment. Read by author Diane Meier, <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0517" rel="noopener noreferrer">originally published in May 2014</a>.</p>

'I don't want Jenny to think I'm abandoning her': views on overtreatment

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