‘Warehouse for the dying’: Are We Prolonging Life or Prolonging Death?

December 15, 2014

(Washington Post) – For a man at a highly rated hospital surrounded by the technology of medical miracles, Marik sounded a note of striking skepticism: Patients too often suffer in vain attempts to prolong life, he said, because of the mandate to “do everything.” The urge to deploy every last aggressive medical technique, in other words, was hurting people.