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End-of-Life Topic Articles Links

  • Listening to patients at the end of their lives is crucial - so why don't doctors do it?
  • End-of-Life Discussions Challenging for Doctors, Study Shows
  • Imagine a Medicare "Part Q" for Quality at the End of Life
  • New Medicare Rule Authorizes 'End-of-Life' Consultations
  • How to get what we need at the end of life
  • Medicare to Pay for Doctors, Patients to Discuss End-of-Life Wishes
  • Talking Early about How Life Should End
  • Physicians Avoid Conversations about Religion in the ICU
  • Medicare Plans to Pay Doctors for Counseling on End of Life
  • With Palin "Death Panels" Debunked, Congress Pushes End-of-Life Planning
  • Wisconsin is learning how to die
  • Most Physicians Would Forgo Aggressive Treatment for Themselves at the End-of-Life, Study Finds
  • Implementing a Care Planning System: How to Fix the Most Pervasive Errors in Health Care
  • An Extra Layer of Care: The Progress of Palliative Medicine
  • Physician-Assisted Suicide is Not Progressive
  • Dying Shouldn't Be So Brutal
  • Prescribing the End-of-Life Conversation
  • Warehouses for the Dying: Are We Prolonging Life or Prolonging Death?
  • Medicare Weighs Paying for End-of-Life Counseling
  • A Tale of Two Deaths: The Paradigm Shift of the '15 Minute Test'
  • Institute of Medicine Urges Reforms to Improve Care for Dying People
  • Panel Urges Overhauling Health Care at End of Life
  • Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End-of-Life 
  • What Joan Rivers Taught Us About Dying
  • When It's the Doctor Who Can't Let Go
  • Coverage for End-of-Life Talks Gaining Ground
  • Teaching Doctors When to Stop Treatment
  • A 'Code Death' for Dying Patients
  • Europe Looks to La Crosse, Wisconsin for End-of-Life Care Model
  • When Doctors Need to Lie
  • Basic Palliative Care: Not for Experts Only
  • Generalist plus Specialist Palliative Care: Creating a More Sustainable Model
  • How Not to Die
  • Doctors' Secret for How to Die Right: Why Do Physicians Make Different End-of-Life Choices Than the Rest of Us? 
  • The Ultimate End-of-Life Plan - How One Woman Fought the Medical Establishment and Avoided What Most Americans Fear; Prolonged, Plugged-in Suffering
  • Most Americans Would Like to Die Before They Turn 100
  • Checklist Theory Used in Creating End-of-Life Talk Guide
  • Medicare Spending and Care Intensity at the End of Life Increases, While Time in the Hospital Declines
  • Religious Support Tied to Intensive End-of-Life Care
  • End-of-Life Talks Lacking Between Doctors, Patients
  • Hospice Use Rises; So Does Aggressive Care
  • End-of-Life Care Rarely Discussed
  • When Death is Better Than a Nursing Home
  • Communicating with Patients on Health Care Evidence
  • E-mail Reminders Prompt Doctors to Discuss End-of-Life Care, Study Finds
  • Advance Care Planning: Ensuring that the Patient's Voice is Heard
  • Sites Get People Talking About End-of-Life Care
  • 76% of Patients Neglect End-of-Life Planning
  • The Doctor Will See You - If You're Quick
  • End-of-Life Care: Doctors Urged to Have 'Realistic Conversation' with Patients
  • What Doctors Know - and We Can Learn - About Dying
  • The Cost of Dying: It's Hard to Reject Care Even as Costs Soar
  • How Doctors Die
  • A Conversation Many Doctors Won't Have
  • Death: Let's Talk About It
  • Where the Oldest Die Now
  • A Father's Last Days
  • Preparing for Life's Final Stage
  • Open the Discussion on Dying
  • Why this Wisconsin City is the Best Place to Die
  • La Crosse Health Care Could be Model for National Reform
  • Debate Over End-of-Life Care Began in Small Midwestern Town
  • Make End-of-Life More Humane
  • End-of-Life Transitions Among Nursing Home Residents with Cognitive Issues
  • Overcoming Unconscious Incompetence: Improving Specialty Resident Education
  • Law on End-of-Life Care Rankles Doctors
  • The Palliative Care Information Act in Real Life
  • Frank talk about care at life's end
  • In Medicare's Data Trove, Clues to Curing Cost Crisis
  • The Hot Spotters: Can We Lower Medical Costs by Giving the Neediest Better Care?
  • Waiting in the Dark with Dad
  • Dignity in the Final Chapter
  • Death Panels Haunt Health Care Debate
  • From Butterflies, Lessons About Life and Death
  • End-of-Life Care: How You (MDs) Can Help Stressed Surrogates
  • Caring for Terminally Ill Starts with a Talk
  • Trends and Variation in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries with Severe Chronic Illness
  • U.S. Alters Rule on Paying for End-of-Life Planning
  • America's Health Care Addiction
  • Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness
  • 100 things, leading to a single choice
  • The Good Short Life
  • Allowing natural death vs. “Do Not Resuscitate” (scroll down to page 3)
  • Avoiding the call to hospice
  • Death trap: A Vermont-reporter-turned advocate spreads the gospel of dying well
  • Doing death better: How we deal with the end of life
  • Harry and Louise must die: We could save billions in healthcare if we could accept death and say goodbye outside the hospital
  • The dying of the light: The drawn-out indignities of the American way of death
  • Advanced dementia: Managing the burden
  • Easing Life's Final Choices
  • Hospice in the Nursing Home
  • Studies: Some nursing home elderly get futile care
  • The case for killing granny: rethinking end-of-life care
  • The bitter end: My grandmother lived a full life and sought a quiet death.  America’s health-care system had a different idea of what was best.
  • Facing End-of-Life Talks, Doctors Choose to Wait
  • Testimony on House Bill 304 on Physician Assisted Suicide
  • Lessons of a $618,616 Death
  • End-of-Life Issues Need to be Addressed
  • At the End, Offering Not a Cure but Comfort
  • What Price for Medical Miracles?
  • What Broke My Father's Heart
  • Americans are Treated, and Overtreated, to Death
  • The cost conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care
  • Letting go: What should medicine do when it can't save your life?
  • Why doctors need more education about the end-of-life

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  • Home
  • Links featuring Dr. Gwande
  • Related Topic Podcast Links
  • 106 Related Topic Articles
  • Related Film, TV and Radio
  • Hospice & Palliative Resources
  • End-of-Life Preparations
  • Misc. End-of-Life Topics Advice
  • Recording Family Stories