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Doctors on the front lines of end-of-life care

July 8, 2012 by

July 08, 2012 ST. LOUIS - Two decades ago, many Alzheimer's patients with advanced dementia received feeding tubes when they could no longer swallow. Today, few of these terminally ill patients get feeding tubes or breathing machines.

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