G.P.'s wife approaches you and anxiously inquires, "My neighbor saw this science fiction movie about this guy who got a pacemaker and then he couldn't die. Is that for real?"
Howvare you going to respond to her?
• Do not laugh! Patients and their families sometimes hear bizarre stories about "high-tech" health
care issues. It is fortunate she felt she could ask you this question. Keep in mind that if she asked
you about it, she probably worried about it a great deal.
• Reassure her that it might have made a great plot for a movie, but it's not a "real" situation.
• Explain to her the pacemaker gives off only "mini electrical signals" to make the heart beat
regularly.
• This might be a good time to ask whether she and G.P. have discussed and done anything about
health care power-of-attorney and advance directives for each other.
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