Dr. Kenneth Pienta designed a study to add quality treatment to hospice. Patients need better idea of when they will die, doctors say Doctors who refer terminally ill patients to hospice care are overoptimistic, say University of Chicago researchers Elizabeth Lamont and Nicholas Christakis. Doctors expect patients entering hospice to live 5 times longer than they actually do.
Death seems sudden and people lose chances to say goodbye.
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