In this guest column by UTMB’s Dr. Howard Brody: An international team of nurses asked their colleagues in five countries — the United States, Israel, Ireland, Italy and Hong Kong — what they’d recommend for a hypothetical elderly patient transferred to the hospital from a nursing home, who was bleeding from the gut and was unlikely to survive. They were also asked what they’d want for this patient if it were their father, or themselves. Here’s how I interpret the responses.