Burke Balch, the director of the National Right to Life Committee’s Powell Center for Medical Ethics, said in a statement, “The report’s emphasis on cost-slashing will intensify, rather than calm, the well-founded fears of older people and those with disabilities that the renewed push for government funding and promotion of advance care planning is less about discovering and applying their own wishes than about pushing them to accept premature deaths.”
Panel members also said there should be a more pronounced shift away from fee-for-service medicine, a system that, Dr. Pizzo said, “means that being a physician that does procedures, you are more highly compensated than people who are conducting conversations with patients.”
CONTINUE READING THE MAIN STORY3COMMENTSDr. Pizzo said that in surveys of doctors about their own end-of-life preferences, “a vast majority want to be at home and as free of pain as possible, and yet that’s not what doctors practice.” (meaning...just give them the pain pill and send them home)
This article seems benign, it is not and I don't have the stomach to deconstruct it...
http://nyti.ms/1DkpZWH
Panel members also said there should be a more pronounced shift away from fee-for-service medicine, a system that, Dr. Pizzo said, “means that being a physician that does procedures, you are more highly compensated than people who are conducting conversations with patients.”
CONTINUE READING THE MAIN STORY3COMMENTSDr. Pizzo said that in surveys of doctors about their own end-of-life preferences, “a vast majority want to be at home and as free of pain as possible, and yet that’s not what doctors practice.” (meaning...just give them the pain pill and send them home)
This article seems benign, it is not and I don't have the stomach to deconstruct it...
http://nyti.ms/1DkpZWH
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