Hospice care does not have to be permanent stay. Patients have the right to withdraw from treatment at any time for any number of reasons. Some reasons include improvements in health, remission, or possible break-throughs or medical advances in...
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Many people believe that hospice care relies strictly on sedation as a major way to ease the pain of patients. This is patently false. The biggest fear people have who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness, is the process and pains of...
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One of the biggest concerns patients and their families have when deciding whether or not to use hospice care is medication. Many people fear hospice because they believe that stopping medications can lead to accelerating death. This isn’t...
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Hospice patients are eligible to receive hospice care wherever they feel most comfortable. Some Stein Hospice patients choose to receive services in their home. But services can be provided wherever someone lives (assisted living, nursing home...
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Chinese Communist Party leaders are afraid that the Dalai Lama will not have an afterlife. Worried enough that this week, officials repeatedly warned that he must reincarnate, and on their terms. Tensions over what will happen when the 14th Dalai...
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Many people believe hospice places a time limit on patient stays and hastens death. This belief is false. The Hospice Benefit is the most underused Medicare benefit. At Stein Hospice there is no time limit for how long a patient can receive...
Read moreThis short video features a spokeswoman from the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization.
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A great Ted Talk from an Israeli physician, Dr. Ron Sabar. Hat tip: Lara Zilberstein, MD
Read moreBy Ken Murray Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. It was diagnosed as pancreatic cancer by one of the best surgeons in the country, who had developed a procedure that could triple...
Read moreA moving video from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization on how hospice worked miracle for one family.
Read moreDying and profits: The Evolution of Hospice By Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating [A] Washington Post analysis of hundreds of thousands of U.S. hospice records indicates that, as [for-profit] companies transformed a movement once dominated by...
Read more Are we prolonging life or prolonging death? -Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post [O]n the best-sellers lists is “Being Mortal,” a surgeon’s critique of the way the United States handles decline and death. In it, author Atul Gawande warns, among...
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