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AUGUST 11, 2023
Many have persistent unmet care needs leading to high costs with questionable quality outcomes (Salzberg, et al. Collaborative efforts between clinicians and payers can continue to advance the quality of palliative care and enhance the well-being of patients and their families. The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-LifeCare.
So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of lifecare.” ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed.
You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-lifecare, and similar consequences. You may end up there indefinitely. You’ll have a feeding tube.
Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. Ought we, in bioethics, create ethical rules for providing care that is illegal? Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . It’s bigger.
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