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 ...

Decision to forgo life-sustaining treatment at the end of life have surpassed 500,000 cumulative cases in Korea, according to ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A bill to allow a patient advocate to withhold life-sustaining treatment for pregnant individuals has successfully passed the Michigan Senate. Under current state law, an ...