end-of-life care
1: Too much medicine wasted on the dying, end-of-life care report says | November 18, 2013
A QUARTER of the nation’s health budget is devoted to futile end-of-life care that strips patients of a dignified death and means healthier people have their surgery delayed…
2: National laws needed for Living Wills | October 18, 2012
Some leading doctors and ethicists are calling for uniform national laws to guarantee a dying person’s wishes, as expressed in a living will, are respected by doctors and hospitals. They say new medical technology is sometimes prolonging life unnecessarily…