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Often Futile Procedure Remains Common
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Final Years, Troubling Choices: Third of a Three Part Series.
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Final Years, Troubling Choices: Third of a Three Part Series.
While criticism of through-the-stomach feeding tubes has revolved around their use in frail elderly people, the device is widely accepted as crucial to medical care in a number of other circumstances.