DNR
- Medicine/Medical. do not resuscitate (used in hospitals and other health-care facilities to indicate to the staff the decision of a patient's doctors and family, or of the patient by a living will, to avoid extraordinary means of prolonging life).
- Also D.N.R. do not return.
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Told by a Ukrainian that the DNR were in Novotroitske, a guardsman said, “We know.”
DNR leaders admitted that foreign aid workers in the Donetsk region had good reasons to be concerned about their safety.
DNR
- do not resuscitate
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DNR
- do not resuscitate (a physician's order to refrain from initiating a code blue)
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