Enlarge this image Hospice provides vital end-of-life support and palliative care to terminally ill patients. But it’s costing Medicare billions. A new…
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Why ‘lost their battle’ with serious illness is the wrong thing to say
by Marc Silver February 28, 2023Enlarge this image Hanna Barczyk for NPR Hanna Barczyk for NPR The family of Jimmy Carter last week announced that the former…
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HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, April 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Learning you have a cancer that looks imminently terminal is tough news to…
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Virtual Reality Helps Hospice Workers See Life And Death Through A Patient’s Eyes
by Kathleen Burge December 27, 2018YouTube Sign up for the CommonHealth newsletter to receive a weekly digest of WBUR’s best health, medicine and science coverage. You wait…
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HHS Inspector General’s Report Finds Flaws And Fraud In U.S. Hospice Care
by Ina Jaffe July 31, 2018Enlarge this image Good hospice care at the end of life can be a godsend to patients and their families, all agree,…
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Sam Heughan, 38, Scotland Actor 1. Can you give readers a hint of what to expect on Outlander, Season 4? Without…
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June 19, 2018 — When Beth Wood’s cancer returned in 2014 after 20 years of remission, she made an instant choice: no…
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By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Medicare’s financial condition has taken a turn for the worse because of predicted higher hospital spending…
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