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LOS ANGELES — More times than she can count, Dr. Carin van Zyl has heard terminally ill patients beg to die. They tell her they can’t ...
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As a consultant who counsels families management, Johanna Turner often shares the story of her mother’s final days 21 years ago. Thanks to the skilled ...
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By Jenny Gold Kaiser Health News The American health care system is poorly equipped to care sensitively for patients at the end of life, a recent ...
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More than 1.5 million patients received hospice care last year. But palliative care providers are concerned that one-third of those patients died within seven days ...
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By Brad Broker Brittany Maynard, the terminally-ill woman who moved to Oregon to legally take her own life under the state’s Death with Dignity Act, ...
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By BRAD BROKER When do you want to die? Would you rather pass before illness and age take over your life or do you want ...
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By Brad Broker The official cause of my father’s death was prostate cancer. But it was only after the cancer metastasized to his bones that ...
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