[Magdalen] RIP Sir Terry Pratchett

[James Handsfield]

Excellent article in today’s Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-i-discovered-an-important-question-a-doctor-should-ask-a-patient/2015/03/09/ca350634-bb9c-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html?tid=pm_pop <http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-i-discovered-an-important-question-a-doctor-should-ask-a-patient/2015/03/09/ca350634-bb9c-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html?tid=pm_pop>

or http://tinyurl.com/ojycjay <http://tinyurl.com/ojycjay>

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Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.

Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net

> On Mar 14, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
> 
> Jim, things are not really better.  I remember doing my chaplaincy
> training, and my CPE supervisor called it "fighting over the dying:"  it's
> more about billing now, than the denial of terminal illness.  Doctors and
> the medical "system" want to keep billing for tests and procedures, even
> when they know the cost-benefit ratio is less than good.  It's really not
> about denial anymore; it's about greed.  The public's greater awareness of
> hospice care probably results in more referrals now -- people ask for it,
> for themselves or for loved ones, in part because of better access to home
> health care and other benefits that hospice can provide or assist with.