Patient-Doctor Ethnic Differences Thwart End-of-Life Conversations

April 23, 2015

(Medical Xpress) – Most doctors balk at talking with seriously ill patients about what’s important to them in their final days, especially if the patient’s ethnicity is different than their own, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The study, to be published in PLOS ONE on April 22, is based on questionnaires answered anonymously by 1,040 medical residents in their last year of training.