End-of-life care: the long conversation.
California palliative care specialist, author, and consultant Ira Byock, MD, calls the issues surrounding end-of-life care "a public health crisis." But he says many of the same solutions to improving the health care system overall - shared decisionmaking, advancements in medical education, better payment and delivery structures - apply equally to this area of medical care. Dr. Byock is the General Session keynote speaker at TexMed 2015 in May.
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