When is more medical care helpful in end-of-life situations and when does it just lead to more suffering? How do you know when it's time to let someone you love pass away naturally?
These choices are heart-wrenching for patients, families, and their doctors.
A new Netflix documentary short called Extremis, which is Latin for “at the point of death,” follows doctors, patients and their loved ones in various end-of-life scenarios that play out at the intensive care unit at Oakland's Highland Hospital.
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