A Do Not Resuscitate order, or DNR, is instruction to your medical team of how to respond to your death. When crisis of death occurs, and a DNR order is on the record, it instructs the physician and nurses (medical team) to allow for a natural death when the heart stops. DNR is an actual order informing the healthcare team to support a patient, provide care and comfort, but when death occurs no CPR is to be performed. Other life sustaining treatments (LST) in addition to CPR include: ventilators, dialysis treatments, transfusions and blood products, and artificial nutrition. Each of these is discussed briefly in this episode.

This episode discusses some things to consider that might indicate if a person has a serious illness. Serious illness is not necessarily a terminal illness. However, if a person has any of these concerns, it might be beneficial to talk with your physician and ask some questions about your illness and trajectory.

YODO, or You Only Die Once is brought to you by Dr. Sara Bohn and Dr. Lisa Tartaglia. In this episode, Dr. Bohn and Dr. Tartaglia describe the theory behind YODO and explain a little bit about what they hope to share with you in the future.