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LIVING WITH CANCER
At the End of Life, a Way to Go Gentle
For dying patients, a new book argues that palliative care methods are often better than the typical intensive care unit approach.
By SUSAN GUBAR
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THE NEW OLD AGE
Physician Aid in Dying Gains Acceptance in the U.S.
Nearly one in five Americans now lives in a state where terminally ill patients may legally choose to end their lives with prescriptions from a doctor.
By PAULA SPAN
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LIVING WITH CANCER
Lessons on Dying From David Bowie and My Friends
A video and two friends’ opposite paths underscore the importance of determining one’s own way.
By SUSAN GUBAR
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Health Care Providers Scramble to Meet New Disaster Readiness Rule
The new requirements seek to help medical facilities better provide care during emergencies, including severe weather, pandemics and terrorist attacks.
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WELL
My Brother, the Hospice Graduate
Our journey shifted: Instead of waiting for a baby to die, we learned to love and live with a quadriplegic boy.
By COURTNEY LUND
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Who May Die? California Patients and Doctors Wrestle With Assisted Suicide
As the state begins to allow what has come to be known as aid in dying, two patients and two doctors explain how it will affect them and how they are preparing for the changes.
By JENNIFER MEDINA
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Much of World Suffers Not From Abuse of Painkillers, but Absence of Them
While the United States struggles with a surge in addiction, an estimated 5.5 billion people live in countries with little or no access to opioid analgesics.
By RICK GLADSTONE
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THE HEALTH ISSUE
The Sisters Who Treat the Untreatable
At a Catholic nursing home in New York, comforting patients who are dying of cancer.
Photographs by GILLIAN LAUB and BROOKE JARVIS
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Medicare Is Often Overbilled by Hospices, and Pays Twice for Some Drugs
Medicare has been overpaying more than $260 million a year, including bills from hospices for inpatient care that patients did not need, investigators said.
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TIP
How to Tell Someone You’re Terminally Ill
Give people a chance to help. Sometimes a text is O.K.
By MALIA WOLLAN
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LETTERS
Seeking a More Humane Way to Die
Doctors and a family member discuss end-of-life choices.
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THE NEW OLD AGE
In Palliative Care, Comfort Is the Top Priority
Some patients avoid this specialty, which provides relief from pain and discomfort, because they mistake it for end-of-life care.
By PAULA SPAN
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REACTIONS
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to articles in Science Times.
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A New Vision for Dreams of the Dying
A team of clinicians and researchers is trying to understand the importance of deathbed dreams to help the ill and the bereaved.
By JAN HOFFMAN
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LETTER
Access to Palliative Care
Compassion & Choices calls for federal policy reforms that would help.
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WELL
Patients, and Doctors, Aren’t Dying at Home
Doctors, it turns out, aren’t much different than everyone else when it comes to where they die.
By DANIELLE OFRI, M.D.
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THE END
Unequal Lives, Unequal Deaths
Death may be humanity’s great equalizer, but there are vast inequalities in how we die.
By SUNITA PURI
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FIXES
In India, Dispensers of Balm Travel to Death’s Door
The palliative care system in Kerala, India, has been singled out as a beacon of hope in offering the possibility of a dignified death to everyone.
By ANKITA RAO
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THE END
Songs of Transition
By playing music for dying people I learned that the presence of another person can be transformative in life events.
By JENNIFER L. HOLLIS
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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
When Dying Alone in Prison Is Too Harsh a Sentence
For terminally ill prisoners who should be with their families, the system of medical parole is too slow, too cumbersome and too little used.
By RACHAEL BEDARD
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OPINION
When Hospital Paperwork Crowds Out Hospital Care
With all the documentation required of nurses and doctors, it’s too easy for the patients themselves to get lost.
By THERESA BROWN
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THE END
When a Baby Dies
Children with life-limiting conditions should be given the chance to live as long as possible, and as well as possible.
By STEFAN J. FRIEDRICHSDORF
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THE END
Imagine a Medicare ‘Part Q’ for Quality at the End of Life
I would promise to skip expensive, risky interventions in exchange for better daily care.
By KATY BUTLER
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THE END
Mothering My Dying Friend
When you take care of someone helpless, the constant thrum of doing often drowns out the bigger existential story.
By CATHERINE NEWMAN
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THE END
Lessons in End-of-Life Care From the V.A.
Dying people often care more about spiritual support, control over decisions and respect for dignity than hospital parking.
By DAVID CASARETT
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THE END
Finding the Meaning of Death in a Concert Hall
I didn’t want to hear Strauss’s musical meditation on the end of life. But I’m glad I did.
By THERESA BROWN
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Nursing Homes Bill for More Therapy Than Patients Need, U.S. Says
An inquiry by federal investigators found that nursing homes lined their pockets by routinely filing claims for the most expensive level of therapy no matter what was necessary.
By ROBERT PEAR
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EDITORIAL
California’s Right-to-Die Bill
The governor should sign into law a bill that would allow some terminally ill patients to hasten their death.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
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THE END
All Choked Up
She was dying, and the one thing she wanted might kill her.
By MARA ALTMAN
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LENS
Alleviating Pain, Delivering Love
A photojournalist learns what it is like for a family to care for a critically ill child while spending time at a pediatric palliative care program.
By ILANA PANICH-LINSMAN
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