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Are the elderly treated differently in hospitals?

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Reply Tue 14 Nov, 2006 03:32 pm
Only just read a VERY pertinent article in today's NYT, a conversation with Dr. Robert Butler. Excerpt:

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Older people also experience health care discrimination. Physicians are often less aggressive in treating their illnesses than they are with younger patients.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14conv.html
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