Brittany Maynard was a young woman who knew she most likely wouldn’t live to see the age of thirty. With advanced carcinomatosis, she was facing an immediate future filled with…Read More
Cardiac arrests have a 100{36b4843c1e91ee13efbe8c3a798c5619926a11e7f2c1b4172ed6d3c5e5f1165f} mortality rate if no resuscitation efforts have been made within the first 10 minutes. American physician, Sebastian Sepulveda, explores the data surrounding sudden cardiac arrest,…Read More
Although primary care doctors or their designees should ideally deal with the end-of-life care for a patient they have been treating for many years, today the patient’s final days are…Read More
The end of life can be a very scary time for the patient, as well as for his or her family. Patients typically have questions, such as “Now what?” and…Read More
Today there is an image of doctors as miracle workers who can use technology to perform miraculous cures on dying patients, so they are returned to a happy and productive…Read More
At one time, the end of life was very clear. People died of an illness, injury, or just of old age, when their organs critical for functioning gave out, and…Read More
The issue of assisted suicide has increasingly been raised for anyone involved in end-of-life care. There are certain medical policies in place in my state of Massachusetts, which does not…Read More
One of the big end-of-life care issues is the DNR/DNI or “do not resuscitate/do not intubate” controversy. This issue comes up, because normally in an emergency life-threatening situation, the…Read More
In At Death’s Door, I didn’t discuss some of the legal complications, because some of these issues are too complicated. So here I wanted to discuss some of these subjects,…Read More
In At Death’s Door, I have described what it’s really like to be an end-of-life care doctor. This is very different than the image presented in the films and on…Read More
