In This Issue:
- Plan Early for End of Life
- Advance Planning Leads to Better Care
- Medicine Is Not Magic
- Medicine as Part of the Problem
- Design Your Plan of Action
- The Four Big Questions
- Excerpt from Introduction: Dying in America: A Necessary
Conversation:
No one likes to discuss uncomfortable subjects like death and dying. But we're going to do it this month, because it's a necessary topic and there's a good reason for now being the time to stop putting off the conversation.
Last month, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), issued a 500-page report called "Dying in America." It encouraged everyone to talk about how we die. It promoted the universal need for everyone to understand the emotional and practical preparation that can help us, to the best of our ability, leave this world in the medical manner we hope...
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