Review finds lack of evidence for decision to deny hospice care to 102-year-old veteran

Second World War veteran Margaret MacDonald had a tumour the size of a hamburger on her forehead, bladder cancer, congestive heart failure and chronic antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections when her daughter's request for hospice was turned down by a nurse working for Vancouver Coastal Health.

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