3/5/2015 – How to improve dying in America

By many measures, how people die in America has plenty of room for improvement, whether it’s boosting quality of life at the end for the individuals and their families, reducing costs or even extending life. That was a panel’s consensus after an address at Stanford University earlier this week by Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon and author of the bestselling book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters at the End.

Read the full article at The New York Times.