AMA launches end-of-life program
The American Medical Association, in conjunction with several other medical organizations, is offering physicians a new end-of-life resource for patients. The program is aimed at educating the medical profession, patients, and their families, as well as supporting legislation that improves end-of-life care.
The program’s goals are to promote physician-patient relationships that include the following:
o the opportunity to talk and plan for end-of-life care;
o assurance that physical and mental suffering will be attended to and comfort measures used;
o respect for the patient’s preferences when it comes to withholding or withdrawing life- sustaining interventions;
o attention to the goals of the dying patient.
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