Beeson Scholar David Casarett Pens Op-Ed in New York Times on "Lessons in End-of-Life Care From the
In a recent op-ed titled "Lessons in End-of-Life Care From the V.A." written in the New York Times, Beeson scholar Dr. David Casarett talks about the need for surveys to address the needs of patients dealing with end-of-life care.
"If you have a serious, life-threatening illness, you’d want to be cared for in a hospital that offered the best chance of recovery and survival. But you’d also want to know that along the way, your symptoms would be controlled, and you’d have the information and support you needed to make decisions about your treatment. And at the end of life, your preferences for treatment would be honored, and you’d be comfortable and treated with respect," he writes.
In a recent op-ed titled "Lessons in End-of-Life Care From the V.A." written in the New York Times, Beeson scholar Dr. David Casarett talks about the need for surveys to address the needs of patients dealing with end-of-life care.
"If you have a serious, life-threatening illness, you’d want to be cared for in a hospital that offered the best chance of recovery and survival. But you’d also want to know that along the way, your symptoms would be controlled, and you’d have the information and support you needed to make decisions about your treatment. And at the end of life, your preferences for treatment would be honored, and you’d be comfortable and treated with respect," he writes.
Dr. Casarett is the director of hospice and palliative care at Penn Medicine and the author of “Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana.”
To read the full article, click here.