New York’s Palliative Care Information Act: Flawed but Needed
June 24, 2011
It’s been observed that the last thing today’s physicians need is something else to feel guilty, inadequate, or coerced about. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that there is some displeasure with implementation of New York State’s Palliative Care Information Act, which mandates that clinicians offer information or counseling about palliative care to “terminally ill†patients or their surrogates should they choose to accept it. Failure to comply with what, by fiat, is now deemed a standard of practice can be punished by fine. (The Hastings Center)
