TY - JOUR T1 - Refusal: Deciding to Pull the Tube JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 671 LP - 673 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2010.05.100058 VL - 23 IS - 5 AU - Jennifer Frank Y1 - 2010/09/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/23/5/671.abstract N2 - A senior medical student grapples with her patient's end-of-life decisions, which are in stark contrast to the decisions made by her own grandfather facing a similar disease. As she explores her role and responsibility to her patient, she considers what it means to provide futile care and how to negotiate her own beliefs with the demands of her patient's family. ER -