Archives of Internal Medicine: Silence about Death "May Be Costly, In Terms of Health Care Dollars and Patients’ Suffering"

by Danny Fisher

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.”