Last Days

Earlier this week Atul Gawande hosted a live-chat on his article about hospice care:

The fundamental issue I found ... was not the percentage ofpeople at the margin who really do want to spend their last days on aventilator with a feed tube and dialysis machine, or getting knockeddown by a fourth round of chemotherapy with a minuscule chance ofhelping. Perhaps there ARE more of these folks in America thanelsewhere. But the crucial problem is that for most people, this ismisery. They don't...