Hospice care improves quality of life when it's ending

April 15, 2011 -- Though it's already more than a year old, this 8/2010 article is such a valuable explanation of a vexing issue that I'm linking it here. One of my favorite writers on health care, Atul Gawande in the New Yorker, observes that modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions — and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left. A good read on an important topic.

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