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IN THE WRONG: Doctors often get it wrong when predicting how long terminally ill people have left to live, new research suggests.
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A review of more than 4,600 medical notes where doctors predicted survival showed a wide variation in errors, ranging from an underestimate of 86 days to an overestimate of 93 days.

And it does not appear that more experienced or older doctors are any better at predicting when somebody will die than their younger counterparts.

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