title: Case presentation: medical decision-making in hopeless situations: the long-lost son.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
authors.forename: Jerome E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Kurent
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy; D003657:Decision Making; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018447:Medical Futility; D016414:Resuscitation Orders; D013727:Terminal Care