Reuters Health – In less than 20 percent of family meetings in the intensive care unit do doctors and other health care providers discuss religion or spirituality a new study finds. For many patients and…

Forbes — There are two major contemporary issues around how care is provided at the end of life. First, there is the very real sense that patients often receive more care and more intensive care…

Association of Health Care Journalists — Hospice use is a common indicator of quality end-of-life care. The timing of hospice enrollment is an important component of that care, and a recent study finds wide variations among…

Kate DeBartolo, National Field Manager, discusses The Conversation Project on Salt & Light Radio. Listen to the full show here. 

NY Times — With my elderly stroke patient’s back arched and his head tilted back, too many angles of his skeleton were on display. A nose covered in thin gray skin sliced the air like a…

Wall Street Journal — Ms. M was not the patient I thought I would reminisce about for months after she had passed away, but her difficult death clung to me. She was miserable, mean, fetid…