LIFE IN THE END ZONE

What would a new benefit package for the frail, known as intermediate care, cost? How could we pay for it? See next blog post.

For the third time in a 50 years, it’s hip to talk about dying (except, perhaps, if you are in the middle of dying yourself). Interest seem...

The choices are not just between the ICU and hospice. There's a great deal in between. See post on Sunday for more.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. (Plato) The story—from R...

A new book of stories, stories that will inform the way you write the last chapter of your own life. See review on Sunday.

In his 2005 book, On the Take , former New England Journal of Medicine editor Jerome Kassirer inveighed against the influence that drug an...

The Sunshine Act went into effect in September, 2014. It requires public disclosure of payments to hospitals and physicians by drug compan...

Judging by what you read in the press, you might think that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) provides second rate medical care. When...

In a ringing endorsement of autonomy, the preamble to the regulations governing Assisted Living  (AL) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...