BY MARY FINN
Section 12-33 of the U.S. House Proposal states physicians and their patients should discuss advance care planning every 5 years.
Not everyone is thrilled about that however; it has been debated that this discussion could be taken out of context to mean something far worse than just a chat.
Dr. Ira Byock is a hospice physician who is renowned for his work in elderly care.
"Well you know those who practice in hospitals and take care of seriously ill people those of us certainly in hospice and palliative care fail to see anything controversial about having a conversation about people's own individualized preferences for a time when they might be too ill to speak for themselves."
Dr. Byock will be lecturing on the ethics of end-of-life care at the annual Munson Hospice and Palliative Care conference September 14th.
For CMU Public Radio News, I'm Mary Finn.
Section 12-33 of the U.S. House Proposal states physicians and their patients should discuss advance care planning every 5 years.
Not everyone is thrilled about that however; it has been debated that this discussion could be taken out of context to mean something far worse than just a chat.
Dr. Ira Byock is a hospice physician who is renowned for his work in elderly care.
"Well you know those who practice in hospitals and take care of seriously ill people those of us certainly in hospice and palliative care fail to see anything controversial about having a conversation about people's own individualized preferences for a time when they might be too ill to speak for themselves."
Dr. Byock will be lecturing on the ethics of end-of-life care at the annual Munson Hospice and Palliative Care conference September 14th.
For CMU Public Radio News, I'm Mary Finn.
