Who should pay the tab for those who want futile care at the end of life?
Would those organisations really advocate a programme that denied dignity to people at the end of life.
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I'd like to see a lot more spending on prenatal care and less at the end of life.
As a country, we spend too much on overuse of medicine and unnecessary care at the end of life.
Similarly, at the end of life, being able to disassemble something so that each part can be treated appropriately would make something greener.
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"Payments should only be made to encourage better care for people at the end of life, " he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.
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But despite abandoning her case, after having a request for an adjournment rejected by doctors, she remained committed to patient choice at the end of life.
Not so much how much power a screen might use, that sort of thing, but how easily can a machine be recycled at the end of life?
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The most expensive condition, respiratory failure on a ventilator, is another way of describing the intensive care that patients receive at the end of life for a variety of conditions.
Our biggest health care expense is at the end of life, and well thought out conversations on this topic can go a long way toward improving end of life care and reducing wasteful care.
While the states could point to higher Medicaid costs due to tobacco (poor people are much more likely to be smokers, and smokers have a lot of chronic illnesses) that calculation ignored the fact that smokers also tend to die younger, and so avoid the medical expenses some elderly people run up at the end of life.
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She also read a statement from Ms Taylor, who said she was "deeply grateful to have the comfort of knowing that I'll have a choice at the end of my life".
So with longevity come sharply reduced odds of being bedridden for long at the end of your life.
When a company has to take back a product at the end of its life cycle, it thinks differently.
She had become so small, at the end of her life, that she was barely taller than the artichoke plants.
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