Items about 'Doctors'
Useful Web Sites
Advance Care Planning: Topics and Organizations Links
Aging with Dignity
Five Wishes approach to Advance Directives
Americans for Better Care of the Dying
Advocacy group to improve care at the end of life.
Caring Connections
A program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), Caring Connections is a national consumer engagement initiative …READ MORE…
Doctors’ Recognition of Approaching Death in Terminal Patients Seen Unreliable
By Will Boggs, MD
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Aug 17 – Physician estimates of survival in terminally ill cancer patients are quite imprecise, especially for patients near death, according to findings published in the August 1st issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. …READ MORE…