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By David Ewing Duncan on March 09th, 2010
What price for medical miracles?
“What would you do if your mother needed an expensive, painful operation that had only a one in a million chance of saving her?”
Category: End-of-Life Care
By Michael McCarthy on March 04th, 2010
Last year, 36 died after taking drugs obtained through state Death with Dignity Act
Most had cancer and expressed concerns over loss of autonomy and dignity at the end of life.
By Howard Gleckman on February 18th, 2010
Why are fewer patients enrolling in hospice?
Some hospice executives say the poor economy may also be driving doctors to hold on to patients longer.
By Michael McCarthy on December 27th, 2009
Health stories in the news
NYTs on end-of-life care and the career of UW researcher Dr. Walter Stamm
By KaiserHealthNews on December 09th, 2009
Should healthcare for the elderly be rationed?
“We’re finding more and more expensive ways to keep people alive. So we have to find ways to set some limits,” ethicist says.
By Dr. Carolyn Clancy on September 02nd, 2009
Making ER visits safer
You hope an accident or illness won’t send you to the ER. But being prepared can help you get good, timely, and safe care when should the need arises.
By admin on August 14th, 2009
The Last Taboo
Howard Gleckman, Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute
August 14, 2009
We live in a time when seemingly no subject is taboo. People discuss, in excruciating detail, their weight, sex lives, and bank accounts on reality TV. Kids tweet about their dates—in real time. And we happily blog away on our latest medical diagnosis. It is apparently no [...]
By admin on August 14th, 2009
What The House Health Bill Says About End-Of-Life Care
By Kate Steadman
August 14, 2009
The furious controversy over Medicare payments for end-of-life care counseling stems from Section 1233 in the health bill passed by three House committees.
Related article:
Doctors Providing End of Life Counseling See Benefit in Current Controversy
That language would amend the Social Security Act, which also governs Medicare, the federal program for the [...]
By admin on August 14th, 2009
Doctors Providing End of Life Counseling See Benefit in Current Controversy
By Jessica Marcy
August 14, 2009
Photo Credit: Kaiser Health News
The paragraphs, buried deep in the 1,000-page House health reform bill, appear innocuous, but they have ignited a firestorm among critics predicting government-sponsored euthanasia.
The controversy, over proposed Medicare funding of end-of-life counseling, has come to epitomize some of people’s deepest fears about the government’s role in health [...]
By admin on August 13th, 2009
For Dying and Seriously Ill Children, Hope For Better Care
By Carol Ann Campbell
August 13, 2009
NEWARK, N.J. – Fourteen-year-old Prince Jackson made a fist and banged his hand on his head, again and again. “It was like this,” he said, trying to describe the blinding pain from the tumor growing inside his head. “It hurt so much. It wouldn’t stop.”
Jackson could not read or sleep [...]
By admin on August 10th, 2009
White House creates “Reality Check” Website to counter “rumors” about healthcare reform plans
The White House has launched a “Reality Check” Website to counter what the administration considers to be lies and distortions being spread about health-care reform plans now being considered by Congress by opponents of the measures.
The site features videos of experts addressing concerns that have been raised about rationing, euthanasia, and the effects reform might [...]
By admin on March 20th, 2009
Life on your terms: communicating end-of-life wishes
[ May 12, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Life on Your Terms – Communicating Your Wishes to Your Family and Physician
What kind of health care do you want to receive if you become ill or injured? Health care decisions are for everyone, whether you’re 18 or 100, healthy or currently undergoing medical treatment. Come learn about health care directives and communicating your wishes [...]
By admin on October 24th, 2008
Op-ed Writers Debate “Death with Dignity” Initiative in the P-I
Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer features two op-ed piece taking opposing sides on Initiative 1000.
If passed, the measure, which is on this Nov. 4 ballot, would allow physicians to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication for terminally ill adults who wish to take their own lives.
Aida Kouyoumjian and Dr John H. Lindberg collaborated in a [...]
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