Fred Meyers has made it his job to provide both. This quote pretty much sums up the national dichotomy on shuffling off this mortal coil.
Death is a squeamish subject, even for physicians.
Fred Meyers thinks so. As chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and director of the West Coast Center for Palliative Education, he has devoted his life to treating seriously ill patients. Taking care of the dying goes with the territory. In general, physicians have not done palliative care well. They reflect society's discomfort with death.