Tag: end of life discussions

The Importance of Talking about End-of-Life Issues

This guest post is contributed by Kitty Holman, who writes on the topics of nursing colleges.ξ She welcomes your comments at her email Id: kitty.holman20@gmail.com. At some point, each and every one of us will face the end. Some of us are terrified of it. Others of us are comfortable...

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End of Life Discussions Struck from Legislation

Last year, new Medicare guidelines were proposed that would allow doctors to get reimbursed for holding voluntary end-of-life consultations with patients during annual medical checkups. It would have given specific directions to doctors on what they should tell patients, including discussion of palliative care, hospice and other services. In early...

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