End-of-life Care in the News - Midwest Palliative & Hospice CareCenter

End-of-life Care in the News

January 2010
Three recent news stories offer glimpses end-of-life care in the U.S.

Los Angeles Times: Study: Doctors Delay Communicating End-of-life Care Issues with Terminally Ill Patients
January 2010
Survey results showed that many physicians delay communicating end-of-life care issues with terminally ill patients. These delays may lead to patients not having the information necessary to make informed choices early in their treatment.

60 Minutes: The Cost of Dying
November 2009
This news segment seeks to explain why medical care is so costly during the last two months of life … and why many patients spend their last moments hooked up to machines on an intensive care unit.

New York Times: In Hospice, Care and Comfort as Life Wanes
November 2009
Columnist Jane Brody shadowed hospice workers for a month and gained some insight into why hospice patients tend to live longer … and die more peacefully.

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