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One of the real recent advances in health care, in my humble opinion, was the organization of compassionate, palliative care for people at the end of life.  During my training and early career I saw too many patients with terminal illness getting...

Governmental Overreaction May Jeopardize Patient Choices for Compassionate Services that Spare Terminally Ill Patients and Families Needless Suffering By Barry D. Epstein, J.D., and Brent Green  A recent Washington Post article exposed dubious...

By Ron Pollack Executive Director, Families USA What Is Hospice Care? Hospice care is a program of care and support for patients who are terminally ill. These patients may no longer want to try to cure a terminal illness, or their doctor may have...

6 Things That Happened in Health Policy This Week was created by Zoe Lyon and Garret Johnson. Find them on twitter @zoemarklyon and @garretjohnson22. This newsletter is produced each week by a mix of research assistants from the Department of Health...

Image from “Hospice, Inc.” by Ben Hallman in the HuffPost. By Ann Neumann And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again...