Tag: advance directives
Blog Posts (1)
June 13, 2012
"The Descendants": The Bioethics Movie That Wasn't
Okay, I am probably one of the last people in the United States (no, probably the world) to watch the movie “The Descendants”.…
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June 18, 2012 6:43 pm
Mapping Your End-of-Life Choices (New York Times)
What he would not want is to be on a ventilator indefinitely, or to have his heart restarted if he had a terminal illness or would end up mentally impaired. Nuances like these, unfortunately, escape the attention of a vast majority of people who have completed advance directives, and may also discourage others from creating directives in the first place. Enter two doctors and a nurse who are acutely aware of the limitations of most such directives. In 2008, they created a service to help people through the process, no matter what their end-of-life choices may be.
February 27, 2012 1:02 pm
76% of patients neglect end-of-life care planning (American Medical News)
More than 80% of patients believe it is important to have their end-of-life wishes in writing, yet less than a quarter of them have accomplished that planning, said a survey of nearly 1,700 California adults released in February. #bioethics #endoflife