Response to the Stuart RB, Thielke S. Conditional Permission to Not Resuscitate: A Middle Ground for Resuscitation. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2019;20:679‒682

As I was reading Stuart and Thielke's excellent introduction to the concept of a conditional do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNR) order,1 I was taken back to a personal experience over 30 years ago involving exactly this situation.