There was an interesting story on CNN recently about the number of times that terminal patients were given “straight talk” by their doctors of the severity of their situation and end of life care options. The impetus for this story was a study led by Dana Farber Cancer Institute that followed 603 terminally ill cancer patients with life expectancies of less than a year. The conclusion: only about a third of the patients had a discussion with their doctor about their end of life care options.
