The author of this article in Health Affairs (healthaffairs.org) is the director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and a palliative care physician. She shares the story of “Jenny,” a cancer patient and Jenny’s oncologist. The author helps Jenny deal with her “death sentence” and helps the oncologist struggling with “abandoning” her patient. The article is here:
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/5/895.full
‘I Don’t Want Jenny To Think I’m Abandoning Her’: Views On Overtreatment
Diane E. Meier
Health Affairs
May 2014, vol. 33, no. 5, pages 895-898
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