It got to be expensive and time consuming and, as the years progressed, it became increasingly difficult to care for his dad.
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But Kenneth W Goodman, an ethics professor at the University of Miami, says religious conservatives are pushing laws that would make it difficult to withdraw care even when a patient's wishes are clear.
Dr Kenneth Goodman, an ethics professor at the University of Miami, says that much of the legislation aimed at making it difficult to withdraw care in end-of-life cases had failed to make it onto the statute books.
Despite the high costs, it can be difficult to find quality care.
Ms Starmer told the tribunal earlier that she and her husband worked "extremely irregular" shift patterns, which made it difficult for them to care for their daughter.
C. as a solution to difficult health care challenges, and it was an idea that was put forward as the central part of the plan that was advanced by the Republican governor of Massachusetts, who put in place his own health care reform proposal.
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The danger for patients is that managed care companies will find it difficult to provide a high level of care and still make a profit.
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Yet without it, many find it extremely difficult to obtain the health care to which their grandchildren are entitled, or to get them into a convenient public school.
It is often difficult for health care providers to avoid providing care to non-paying patients, especially in the case of emergency care.
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Patrick Crowley, from York Hospital, said debt levels meant less money for hospitals, making it difficult to deliver "safe and effective care".
Described by some as a postcode lottery, the system that was in place at the time made it difficult for parents to get the appropriate care for their children.
However, the health minister, Earl Howe, feared the move would be "counter-productive" because the concept of integrated care was "difficult to define" and risked being "too narrow" in some cases.
More than 43 million Americans serve as unpaid caregivers for adults who are 50 and older (the age at which you can join AARP), and nearly one in four say they have a difficult time coordinating care, according to a 2009 study by the National Alliance for Caregiving in collaboration with AARP, which has some 40 million members.
She said it was extremely difficult to provide safe, effective and dignified care in this setting.
"The regulatory structure of health care makes it incredibly difficult to innovate, " Golinkin says.
Teresa Budrey, of the Sussex RCN, said staff were "desperately trying to deliver good care in difficult and challenging circumstances".
We've seen a lot of those patients here -- some of the most difficult patients for the Devil Docs to take care of.
Many criticized the system saying it was difficult to manage all those facets of health care delivery and do all those things well.
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In many cases, explains Mr Johnson, the reason for such leaks is not malice or even recklessness, but that corporate applications are often difficult to use, in particular in health care.
If patients are dissatisfied with their care, it is difficult to dispute since they already have been charged for it, says Mark Rukavina, who heads the Access Project, a Boston-based health-care advocacy organization.
The costs of providing and managing care, as everyone also knows, can be very difficult to control, and the task of allocating the resources necessary to an effective infrastructure of care is one that the current cartel-like system is not doing very well.
So, rather than shifting costs through short-term cuts, we instead need to make difficult structural changes in our health care programs.
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Strapped for supplies and personnel, health-care facilities were finding it difficult to treat the wounded, said the ICRC, which has 50 staff members in Syria.
"But when they performed there on Jan. 31, the wailing music was either too difficult to record or the executives didn't care much for what they heard, " Mr. Raeburn said.
Zhang said he mainly returned home to take care of his aging parents, but said he believed it would not be difficult to find jobs in the Chinese interior.
And private long-term care insurance is expensive and increasingly difficult to buy.
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Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association, said the advice provides "a good steer" for doctors on how to approach the difficult area of end of life care.
Residency applicants from foreign schools are likely to be squeezed out, medical educators say, which could make it more difficult to fill the nation's growing needs in primary care, which includes internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics.
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