Honoring Choices #4 - Being Mortal Review

Honoring Choices #4 - Being Mortal

In this final episode I review what is, according to one local nursing home medical director, "the most important book on end-of-life care since Elisabeth Kübler-Ross." Being Mortal, a NY Times best seller by Dr. Atul Gawande, dives deep into the issues around advanced care planning, hospice care, the limitations of medicine, and difficult decisions as the body comes to its end.

Honoring Choices #3 - Integrating ACP into Clinical Practice

Having conversations with patients about advanced care planning sounds like a lofty goal, but how do you actually introduce this topic with people that are reasonably healthy? In this episode, Dr. Charles Boult, MD - director of Saint Alphonsus Health System Hospice & Palliative Care - describes an example of clinic flow with regard to this topic.

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Honoring Choices - Health System Integration

Honoring Choices sounds like a great idea. But how do you implement such lofty goals at a system level. Dr. Kurt Seppi, executive medical director of St. Luke's Health System, describes how the Idaho's largest private employer is working on that goal.

For a lengthier written conversation with Dr. Seppie, visit Dr. Pates Prescription for Change Blog.