http://healthblog.ncpa.org/doctors-avoid-end-of-life-talks/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Tue, 22 May 2012 22:14:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://healthblog.ncpa.org/doctors-avoid-end-of-life-talks/comment-page-1/#comment-51963 Tom H. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:47:38 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8319#comment-51963 I agree with Nancy. I agree with Nancy.

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/doctors-avoid-end-of-life-talks/comment-page-1/#comment-51953 Nancy Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:24:38 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8319#comment-51953 This finding is hard to undrstand. You would think this would be one of the things doctors, especially in encology, for example, would be skilled at doing. This finding is hard to undrstand. You would think this would be one of the things doctors, especially in encology, for example, would be skilled at doing.

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/doctors-avoid-end-of-life-talks/comment-page-1/#comment-51942 Catherine Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:02:53 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8319#comment-51942 It is important that the patient's preferences be discussed before the patient is too ill to consider options and communicate. Otherwise, family members are left to decide among themselves what a dying loved one might have wanted, and those are far more difficult decisions to make. It is important that the patient’s preferences be discussed before the patient is too ill to consider options and communicate. Otherwise, family members are left to decide among themselves what a dying loved one might have wanted, and those are far more difficult decisions to make.

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/doctors-avoid-end-of-life-talks/comment-page-1/#comment-51941 Devon Herrick Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:02:22 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8319#comment-51941 These results do not surprise me. It's hard enough to discuss pending death in vague, almost theoretical terms, as though it were happening to someone else. The gory details are undoubtedly even harder to discuss with someone about to experience them. These results do not surprise me. It’s hard enough to discuss pending death in vague, almost theoretical terms, as though it were happening to someone else. The gory details are undoubtedly even harder to discuss with someone about to experience them.

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