end of life care

When it comes to basic human rights in the US, it's no longer a matter of whether we've regressed, but just how far.

Surgical risk is a here and now proposition; you get the outcome of your surgical management right away; the acuity of the timing makes it difficult to claim an adverse result was solely due to the disease or the patient.

Here is the dogma: 25% of Medicare’s annual spending is used by the 5% of patients during the last 12 months of their lives.