Author / Monica Delles
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5 Things to Know About Death and Dying Debates
5 Things to Know About Death and Dying Debates Cathy Lynn Grossman, senior national correspondent for Religion News Service, identified 5 things about death and dying debates recently provoked by Brittany Maynard’s choice to end her life and suggests “neutral sources,” such as the Center’s Caring Conversations Workbook, that “are designed to get people thinking,… -
Myra Christopher Named to Starr Hall of Fame
Myra Christopher Named to Starr Hall of Fame Myra Christopher, the Center’s founding director and current Kathleen Foley Chair in Pain and Palliative Care at the Center for Practical Bioethic joined the ranks of seven of Kansas City’s best citizens on March 13, 2015, when she will be inducted into the inaugural class of the Starr… -
Case Study – The Role of Literacy in Making Wishes Known
Where is Will Rogers when we need him most?
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Terri Schiavo — Five Years Later
Reflections on the Terri Schiavo case.
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The Affordable Care Act and Brain Injuries
Brain injured patients don’t follow a schedule for recovery.
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The Best Care Possible
The way Americans die in this country is a national disgrace, according to Dr. Ira Byock in his new book, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care through the End of Life.
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The Affordable Care Act Impact on US Hospitals
John Bluford, president and CEO of Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City, explains the mounting challenges U.S. hospitals face with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
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The Challenges of Caregiving
An estimated 120 million adult Americans (57 percent) are either providing unpaid care to an adult family member or friend or have provided this care in the past.
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The Courts and Medical Futility
Thaddeus Pope, director of the Health Law Institute and an Associate Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota, co-authored an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association entitled “The Courts, Futility and the Ends of Medicine.”
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The Cruzan Family 20 Years Later
Twenty years after Nancy Cruzan died following years of litigation and public strife over the right to withdraw life-sustaining treatment, Nancy’s sister Chris Cruzan White and her two daughters, Angie Broaddus and Miranda Lewis, look back and at what lay ahead.
