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By Liz Szabo In the past four years, Bruce Mead-e has undergone two major surgeries, multiple rounds of radiation and chemotherapy to treat his lung ...
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Advance Directives: Improving Patient Care at End-of-Life
By Rhea Go-Coloma Mary, 89, who has a history of heart failure and spinal stenosis, lives at home with her elderly husband. Over the past few ...
Read More »How To Overcome Fear Of Death
By Bruce Horovitz, Kaiser Health News Since he watched his mother drop dead, Richard Bridgman’s fear of death has left him emotionally paralyzed. It was right ...
Read More »Laughter is the Best Medicine for End-of-Life Patients
By Bruce Horovitz, Kaiser Health News Just weeks before Christmas some years ago, Shirley Rapp and her family faced the devastating news that she had what ...
Read More »Aid-in-Dying Laws Don’t Guarantee That Patients Can Choose To Die
By JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News In the seven months since California’s aid-in-dying law took effect, Dr. Lonny Shavelson has helped nearly two dozen terminally ill ...
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