How do doctors determine the amount of time a terminally ill patient has left?

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How do doctors determine the amount of time a terminally ill patient has left?

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It isn’t practiced as much today – the method of estimation based on repeated samples is probably more accurate – but historically, most medical schools covered a course in chiromancy, which as we know, can be quite useful for predicting patient outcomes with a reasonably high degree of precision.