https://hankdunn.com/2013/11/05/post-polst-start-talking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=post-polst-start-talking Information for End of Life Decision Making Mon, 11 May 2020 21:03:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hankdunn.com/2013/11/05/post-polst-start-talking/#comment-605 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:41:03 +0000 http://54.174.217.105/hankdunn.com/?p=1391#comment-605 Thank you for these comments. You are so ‘right on target’. These conversations are critical to medical care, and they are not just about ‘limiting’ medical care. After hearing you speak, and reading the introduction to the fifth edition to ‘Hard Choice for Loving People’ I no longer start the converstions with discussion about ‘end of life’ planning, but rather discussing goals of care and determining where that individual is with their diagnoses and prognosis. It is so much easier to get the conversation going with a focus on goals…and this allows for the end of life discussion to follow much easier. Thanks for all you do Hank!

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