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A Story About Suicide in the Arctic
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To the Editor: In his A Piece of My Mind article entitled "Five Miles From Tomorrow," Dr Shah1 describes an elderly Inuit man who was seen at our clinic, and who was said to end his life by walking into the ocean. I remember well Shah's medical student rotation with us last year, and I enjoyed the week that we spent together. As his supervising physician during that week, I believe that his story deserves a response.
I appreciate Shah's story for the questions it raises about respecting end-of-life wishes, whether or not they occur in the context of an intensive care unit or a remote arctic village. However, the subtleties and complexities of real-life medicine are better appreciated in case illustrations when they have some basis in reality. Shah's article is presented as a true story, when in fact there is little truth about it. I can understand Shah . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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