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    Tag Archives for: "end of life care"

    Amazing Story About Innovation in a VA ICU

    June 24, 2016

    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 […]

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    Stellar End-of-Life Care at the VA

    January 31, 2015

    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 […]

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    Medical Futility: How Can We Help People Confront the Inevitable

    September 21, 2014

    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 […]

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    Maybe We Should Pay Doctors Not to Operate

    June 21, 2011

    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 […]

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