Doctors’ Words Influence End-of-Life Decisions Made By Patients’ Families

By Alexandra SifferlinMay 10, 20130

Making the decision to approve heroic measures to save a loved one’s life can be fraught with emotion, so anxious family members tend to turn to …

New, essential Guidelines for decision-making on treatment and end-of-life care

This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center’s 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying. Like its predecessor, this second edition …

Research roundup: Surgical care at critical access hospitals; Digging into the cost of emergency medicine; Getting what you want for end-of-life care
Published on May 4, 2013 at 1:42 PM·No Comments

Each week, KHN reporter Alvin Tran compiles a selection …

Vermont end-of-life bill heads to governor

Terri Hallenbeck, The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press12:07 a.m. EDT May 14, 2013

The Vermont House passes the measure approved by the Senate last week.

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Bill would give doctors, family and friends immunity …

As Nurse Lay Dying, Offering Herself as Instruction in Caring

Ms. Santiago said she was afraid of death. Ms. Elliot, having seen it in her job at a local hospital, was less troubled by it. She is a licensed practical …

Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the …

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Religion Powers End-of-Life Care

By John Gever, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today
Published: May 06, 2013

Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE; Instructor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, …

Watching my grandfather pass away changed my life

Shraddha Mahesh Dalwadi|Education| May 4, 2013

Watching my grandfather pass away changed my life. It wasn’t sudden and it shouldn’t have been unexpected. Yet it seemed unnatural, mysterious, and incredibly uncomfortable. I …

I MET her in 2011, during my first few weeks as an intern in internal medicine. She was not the kind of patient who had appeared in my textbooks. She had been admitted from rehab after expressing an intent to …