3. Thirteenth annual national report card on health. Ottawa (ON): Canadian Medical
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THE END-OF-LIFE movement is gaining momentum thanks to major grants from the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation. Two of those grants are supporting projects aimed at educating …

Death panels do not fit anyone's conception of health reform. Yet this is what the Obama
administration was accused of endorsing when it proposed paying physicians to talk about …

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ObjectiveThe American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-
ASIM) End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel was convened in 1997 to identify clinical, ethical …

CMAJ• MAR. 20, 2001; 164 (6) 795 for research into end-of-life care remains woefully
inadequate. 3 The current report strongly recommends that resources be designated to …

Editor's note: David A. Fleming, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Director, Center
for Health Ethics, Department of Health Management and Informatics, University of Medicine …

For more than thirty years, the ever-increasing number of life-prolonging, deathdefying
interventions and the ease with which they are deployed, especially among the elderly, has …

Canadians participate as unique US project puts death under the microscope Page 1
Canadians participate as unique US project puts death under the microscope Heather Kent In …

Death is an inevitable consequence of being born (Figure 1). As such, it is important that
human beings recognize this inevitability and plan for a good death. Although in most …