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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a social worker in a nursing home and I do advance directives daily. When discussing palliative care, families often choose no antibiotics because they have also chosen no labs, which can be painful. If we can't do labs to find out what infection is present, we can't give antibiotics for it. [/quote] You can give antibiotics. This isn't true. [/quote] It was true in our case. Assisted living did a test for uti. The lab did not come back so they sent parent to the ER, which dispensed drugs. In other words, assisted living doctor did not dispense antibiotics without labwork. OP [/quote]
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