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This is amazing story about the Veterans Health Administration appeared in the Wall Street Journal. It’s entirely dependent on the fact that the VHA is one of the only healthcare […]

In observing for the book I am writing about the VA healthcare system I have been observing the most stellar end of life care given by the palliative care and […]

On September 18, 2014, the New York Times OpEd page published a wonderful commentary by physician Barron H. Lerner called When Medicine Is Futile. The physician argued that doctors are […]

The patient was a 70-year-old woman who’d been struggling with two different types of cancers for at least eight years.  For most of them, she’d been on dialysis, first every […]