Healthcare Reform and the Price of Torture
In this country we usually torture people before we allow them to die of whatever is killing them --- cancer, emphysema, the multi-organ failure of di...
In this country we usually torture people before we allow them to die of whatever is killing them --- cancer, emphysema, the multi-organ failure of di...
Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
With so many doctors supporting it, who stands against empowering dying patients? Four hundred thirty physicians in the AMA House of Delegates who craft its policy.
Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 03.27.2009 | Living
Changing the focus from the disease to the person who has the disease would create radical change indeed.
Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
This ill-conceived rule will surely obstruct and delay good care in many instances, increasing the suffering of dying patients and their loved ones.
Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 08.14.2009 | Home