This week's show is on "The Conversation." The guests are- Charles Ornstein, senior health care reporter and president of the Association of Health Care Journalists
- Ellen Goodman, the cofounder of "The Conversation Project
Sunday, July 14, 2013
AARP Video on How to Manage End-of-Life Wishes
Inside E Street is a nonpartisan program by AARP that is focused specifically on policies and issues affecting those 50-plus.
This week's show is on "The Conversation." The guests are
This week's show is on "The Conversation." The guests are
Charles Ornstein and Ellen Goodman echo public policy goals of advanced conversations about shortening life when further treatment is medically and personally "futile."
ReplyDeleteHowever, Charles Ornstein, as President of The Health Care Journalists Organization does nothing to warn about the unilateral, overt and covert DNR code status that removes the autonomy of elderly citizens and their legal surrogates.
Surely! both of these people are smart enough to know that several states have changed their laws to somewhat compel physicians in both the outpatient and inpatient setting to SEEK informed consent for either palliative care/transition to Hospice OR Curative Care.
Yet! Both AARP and the Association of Health Care Journalists FAIL the elderly/disabled on Medicare because they fail to WARN that portion of the American public whose autonomy to make the choice to live or die is being removed.