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Patient is Dying; Daughter wants the spotlight on herself.


I went into the room to update the woman about her elderly mother.  Her critically Ill mother laying next to us. Ms. Zarova lived out of town in New Jersey, and recently had an acute illness called myxedema coma.  She had improved somewhat, but her daughter and son in law thought she was getting worse in the rehab home.  So the previous day the…

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