Many patients with advanced cancer receive aggressive treatment near the end of life. The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is an innovation that converts patient preferences ...

All but two states have specific language supporting unilateral clinician decision-making for initiating or maintaining life-sustaining treatment (LST). Requirements, justifications, and oversight ...

Dear Mr. Premack: I am the agent under my father’s medical power of attorney. He has Alzheimer’s and now, ironically, has terminal cancer. The doctors have been cooperative with implementing do not ...