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ROSENBERG, Leah B.

Louise, a 65-year-old grandmother with metastatic breast cancer, has come to our hospital clinic Monday morning to see her outpatient oncologist and tumbled through the emergency room to the inpatient cancer care unit after wheezing plum-sized clots of blood into tissues. As a palliative care physician, I was asked to see Louise to help with her worsening shortness of breath. [Début de l'article]

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