This showed that when doctors had frank conversations about the end of life with terminally ill cancer patients, the patients typically chose not to request very intensive medical interventions.

• 在这篇文章中提到：当医生直白地告诉病人，他因为绝症将要走到生命的尽头的时候，患者通常会选择拒绝过分密集的医疗介入。