End-of-life care should be univserally provided and need-based

November 19, 2012

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, oncologist and chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (and, entirely incidentally, brother to Rahm and Ari Emanuel) has long been a champion of end-of-life care. He spoke today with Corby Kummer at The Atlantic‘s Washington Ideas Forum, where he made succinct points about strategies for systematic improvements in our approach to caring for those nearest to death. (The Atlantic)