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Sheri Fink starts off her story with a very descriptive anecdotal lede that draws the reader into the story. Her writing style gives the reader the feeling that they are reading a novel instead of an article for a publication.

The eighth paragraph I important because it makes the reader take a moment and think about whether what Pou did was wrong or right. It gives an insight as to the reason why these deadly choices were made.

Although Fink shows the reasoning behind the choice to “help patients through their pain”, I feel that she is biased and portrays that what the nurses and doctors did was wrong. She ended the article with the following quote,  “Do you just flip a switch and you’re not a hospital anymore?” I feel that with ending with this quote Fink was sending the ,message that even though a patient is close to death, the job of a doctor is to save lives.