Patient-doctor ethnic differences thwart end-of-life conversations

Most doctors balk at talking with seriously ill patients about what's important to them in their final days, especially if the patient's ethnicity is different than their own, according to a new study. The work is based on questionnaires answered anonymously by 1,040 medical residents in their last year of training.

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