End-Stage Life

When a patient has severe chronic severe diseases affecting every organ system and is progressing despite maximum medical therapy to the point where the severity of the side-effects of their medical therapies are approaching that of their multiple medical comorbidities.
Q: Did you finish his HPI?

A: His chief complaint is End-Stage Life; hospice is seeing him first.
by Dr Urich June 05, 2015
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