A 79-year-old white female with advanced ovarian cancer, severe back and abdominal pain, COPD, depression and anxiety disorder, and asthma ...

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With no family, Barney, her longtime friend, has been her unofficial substitute decision maker. Should her treatment plan be moved ...

Do physicians have an obligation to treat in a situation in which they believe treatment is utterly pointless? ...

A forty-five-year-old man with a three-year history of cardiovascular disease has entered the hospital with a stroke that has paralyzed ...

Reflections on the Terri Schiavo case ...

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The way Americans die in this country is a national disgrace, according to Dr. Ira Byock in his new book, ...

Twenty years after Nancy Cruzan died following years of litigation and public strife over the right to withdraw life-sustaining treatment, ...