Archives of Internal Medicine: Silence about Death "May Be Costly, In Terms of Health Care Dollars and Patients’ Suffering" April 8, 2009
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Over at The New Old Age, a blog from the New York Times‘ Jane Gross and other “Health” section writers, Maggie Jones posts about a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine that “suggests just how costly the [lack of doctor-patient coversations about death] may be, both in health care dollars and in patients’ suffering.”
This is a little off-tangent, but I found this commentary about the need for hospital chaplains from the Times UK news site I thought you be interested to read it: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/melanie_reid/article6062107.ece