Showing posts with label terminally ill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terminally ill. Show all posts
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian Dies; Death With Dignity Proponent Remembered

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Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian, otherwise known as "Doctor Death" fell victim Friday to a blood clot that released from his leg...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Sarah's Tears by Tony Collins, LVN, Inspirational Nursing Stories

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Quality of Death and Dying in Patients who Request Physician-Assisted Death - Journal of Palliative Medicine

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Background: Physician-assisted death (PAD) was legalized in 1997 by Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (ODDA). Through 2009, 460 Oregonia...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Faith Friends by Nancy Haygood, Hospice Poems, Stories of Death and Dignity

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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Palliative care can lead to higher quality of live and longer survival

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by John Schumann, MD Every once in awhile amidst the weekly deluge of medical articles comes a show-stopper that has the potential to cha...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Death in a hospital is not always comfortable, KevinMD.com

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In America, too many people die in the hospital. I don’t mean that they die due to medical error or incompetence, though that’s always a ho...

The cost of keeping the terminally ill alive, KevinMD.com

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Last year, Medicare paid $55 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients’ lives. And it has been es...