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https://www.philly.com/health/patients-talk-with-doctors-life-expectancy-20190404.htmlNancy Schoenborn, a geriatrician at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine, noticed that doctors increasingly are being told by their professional organizations to treat patients in the last decade or so of life differently.