Many optimistic surrogates of critically ill patients err on the side of desiring that everything be done but with a nebulous idea of what 'everything' entails.
In the second circumstance, the patient or next of kin disagrees with you about code status and desires that 'everything' be done.
(How many times has he taken the A train?) In this case, his desire that everything look and sound lovely overcomes any sort of practical sense of how to make the material work dramatically.
"They let you know that everything you could possibly desire is just a phone call away, but they are not in your face".
David Crippen There are two issues here: first whether the physicians have a higher duty to the family's desires than to their clinical intuition; and second whether the family might have legal recourse against the physicians for disregarding their specific desires that 'everything' be done.
In return for access to much of the world's knowledge, we hand over valuable personal information about everything we believe, everything we're curious about, everything we desire or fear – everything that makes us who we are, at least to the retailers, advertisers and secret government agencies on the receiving end.
If desired, save everything but the liver for giblet gravy.
The utmost justification for this unibility is the intellective soul's natural capacity to know everything an application of the Aristotelian principle that human beings desire to know everything.
At 12 months, 12 patients had no further desires and answered that everything was OK.
"But perhaps we have been driven by the desire to show that everything we have achieved and won over the years is down to us, and as a result this year we are taking things on to the next stage".
Just like people often have a desire to believe that everything happens for a reason, sportscasters and sports fans like to come up with reasons for everything in a sporting event.
