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Originally Posted by dellinger63
(My family has been extremely lucky as we were able to talk to an attending and other physicians REPEATEDLY each time a family member died) Can't believe that isn't common practice.
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It's more about planning before your end comes, I think good doctors always discuss it with their patients, but that discussion was not reimburseable to them (the doctors time for sitting, talking to the family and patient, recommending living wills, discussing end of life care, etc) under Medicare until the GOP put that "death panel" provision in Medicare a couple years ago.
Yeah, the same provision they are bitchin' about now. Hypocrites, aren't they?