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175 Never mind that Health Net was right: E. A. Stadtmauer, A. O’Neill, L. J. Goldstein et al., “Conventional-Dose Chemotherapy ...

178 In one, researchers followed 4,493 Medicare patients:S.R.Connor etal.,“ComparingHospice and NonhospiceSurvivalamongPatientsW ...

Care Development in Africa,” Journal of Pain and SymptomManagement 33 (2007):698–710;R.H.Blank, “EndofLifeDecision-MakingAcrossC ...

Communication withSeriously Ill Patients (Cambridge University Press, 2009). 223 One-thirdofthecountylivedinpoverty:Office of Re ...

also R. A. Zellner, M. P. Aulisio, and W. R. Lewis, “Should Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and PermanentPacemakersinPat ...

http://public.health.oregon.gov/ ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/ DeathwithDignityAct/Documents/year16.pdf. 249 Tech ...

Acknowledgments Ihavea lotofpeopletothankforthisbook.Firstand foremostaremymother,SushilaGawande,andmysister, Meeta.In choosingt ...

aged, and Susan Block of the Dana Farber Cancer Institutenotonlydidthesamefortheworldofpalliative andhospicecarebutalso letmebec ...

TinaBennetthasbeenmytirelessagent,myunstinting protector,and,goingallthewaybacktocollege,mydear friend. Although everything abou ...

ThenthereisSaraBershtel,myextraordinaryeditor.As sheworkedonthebook,Sarawasforcedtolivethrough its most difficultrealities in he ...

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