The Night I Broke: A Doctor on the Conversations That Never Get Easier

BySuhani Sharma
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https://time.com/5828588/night-i-broke-doctor-conversations/

I watched the cardiac monitor of a patient who had a “Do Not Resuscitate” order transform from a sinusoidal rhythm – seen when patients have very high levels of potassium that the kidneys are not working well enough to clear – to asystole, better known as a flat line.

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