Voluntary end-of-life counseling is something to cheer, as the WSJ goes on to affirm.
Gallo and others looked at what physicians want when it comes to end-of-life decisions.
He said it was not a justification for putting Mrs Richards onto palliative, end-of-life care.
It also acquired Insight Direct USA's PC Wholesale unit, which distributes end-of-life and refurbished IT products.
The huge amount spent on end-of-life care is another subject that nobody wants to talk about.
The regulation does not require anyone to consult the government on their end-of-life care options.
Making end-of-life decisions when a loved one's wishes are not known can be difficult for families.
She also encourages adult children to have conversations with their parents about their end-of-life wishes.
The idea is to help patients delineate a clear end-of-life plan, including audio and video messages.
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Communicating patient intent ahead of time can avoid costly and painful end-of-life episodes.
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The most obviously problematic part of his monologue is his gross mis-characterization of what end-of-life discussions are like.
Less enjoyable to think about are the actual services performed by morticians and those in the end-of-life industry.
End-of-life tax-ducking techniques can cut income taxes as well as federal estate and state estate and inheritance taxes.
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But it will settle many end-of-life and other social issues where only an individual's own life is at stake.
Bloomberg has a detailed story of an unfortunate patient with massive end-of-life expenses.
That considers manufacturing and product use, but also end-of-life disassembly which might make recycling and reuse of materials easier.
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Joe Klein wrote a cover story for Time about his experience with his parents and their end-of-life experience.
Reimbursement for end-of-life counseling has recently returned, in the form of a Medicare regulation to take effect January 1, 2011.
In Chicago, the large Catholic hospital system Presence Health is incorporating end-of-life care and advanced-directives into its ACO.
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Her claim instead was focused on language being proposed in the bill that would require Medicare to pay for end-of-life counseling.
The death panel myth grabbed hold even though the vast majority of Americans are in favor of payment for end-of-life counseling.
Since then, the hospital has taken on an end-of-life care "facilitator" to ensure that conversations with patients and relatives take place.
Initially, it was their criticism of a provision in the 2010 health law that allowed Medicare to pay doctors for end-of-life discussions.
Mr Kirby said the trust had also invested in end-of-life care and targeted common problems in the area, such as respiratory diseases.
The large number of baby boomers facing end-of-life issues themselves is seen to have made the issue more prominent in recent years.
Supporters of the concept said they hoped the debate would continue and marked the beginning of a conversation to improve end-of-life care.
"Families disagree about end-of-life care all the time, " he told the BBC.
That furor started over a relatively innocuous line item that would have paid for patients to have end-of-life consultations with their doctors.
After a death, the next-of-kin are asked about end-of-life medical costs and whether the late lamented did leave something to the family.
It made no difference that she was an expert in end-of-life discussions.
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