Death after discharge--what would you do?

ith sferred . In the usual pile of paperwork was a newspaper clippin (not his real name to respect confidentiality) had died 2 after his discharge to another facility. I had a feeling it happen, but it greatly upset me nevertheless. The ques were the usual ones a doctor asks when a patient dies. I have done anything to prevent it? What should I do n better understand what happened and to prevent it happening in the future? Usually the answers are relat straightforward. But this situation was different from o patient deaths I had experienced. What would you done? What would you do now? Joe was in his eighties, with multiple medical problems cognitive impairment. He told his son years before tha would rather be dead than go to a nursing home. Time his health and thinking deteriorated, and finally his wife no longer care for him at home. As his health care age brought him to live at a nursing home (at which I am m director and one of the attending physicians) with s resistance but not the vehemence with which he spoke son in the past. Early on, Joe’s son replaced his wife as the legal healt agent. The son said it was because his mother was too u make objective decisions for her husband anymore. She agreeable to the change. For 2 years, the son tried to convince me to stop th life-sustaining medication his father was taking in orde