In the immortal words of rock legend Jim Morrison, "No one here gets out alive." But more and more patients want some say in how they will leave. Historically, the healthcare profession has been slow ...

When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question physicians like me are supposed to ask: “If your heart stops beating, do you want us to do CPR?” On the surface, ...

Regardless of whether the DNR documentation occurs in paper or electronic form (and our study demonstrates significant practice variation in the documentation method), the risk that a hospitalized ...

Given her memory gap and pending ongoing observation/evaluation, Amy has been stripped of her lab coat and forced back into scrubs. She cannot be addressed as ...