

The Role of Nurses When Patients Decide to End Their LivesSeptember 6, 2019 |
Some hospitals and hospices have policies that forbid nurses to be part of the process or even to discuss end-of-life options
Quick ReadGerald Chinchar isn’t quite at the end of life, but the end is not far away. The 77-year-old fell twice last year, shattering his hip and femur, and now gets around his San Diego home in a wheelchair. His medications fill a dresser drawer, and congestive heart failure puts him at high risk of emergency room visits and long hospital stays
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My Brother, the Hospice GraduateAugust 5, 2016 |
When I was a college sophomore living in a sorority house at the University of California at Santa Barbara, my parents called to tell me that my baby brother, Gavin, was dying. He had been given a diagnosis of a very rare disease, Aicardi–Goutieres Syndrome
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Inequality and End-of-Life CareApril 7, 2016 |
How to demand the best. People from racial and ethnic minority groups in America often get inferior care compared to white Americans
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