What to Do When a Patient Has a 'Do Not Resuscitate' Tattoo
“We’ve always joked about this, but holy crap, this man actually did it.”
by Ed Yong
Dec 01, 2017
3 minutes
Earlier this May, Gregory Holt had just finished doing the morning rounds at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, when he got a call about a new patient in the emergency room. He went down with seven colleagues to find an unconscious 70-year-old man with breathing problems and signs of septic shock. He was alone and had no identification. His blood was full of alcohol, and its pressure was dropping. And when the doctors peeled back his shirt, they found a tattoo, running along his collarbones.
It said: DO NOT RESUSCITATE.
The NOT
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