Palliative care can not only provide symptom management, but also assist with advanced care planning, goals of care in the case of a significant decline, and making sure the patient has a medical power of attorney and discussed his or her wishes with this individual.
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Dr . Monica Williams-Murphy, a board certified emergency physician at the University of Alabama Hospital, where she also serves as the medical director of advance care planning and end of life education, called MyDirectives a pioneer in enabling individuals to articulate our own medical choices .
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But another conference participant, Dr . Michael Stellini of Wayne State University in Detroit, said he hoped to persuade his colleagues to try the approach because surveys had shown that the majority of patients at his hospital wanted to discuss advance care planning _ but that doctors were not doing it.
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In July 2009, McCaughey claimed that a section in the pending healthcare legislation, " Advance Care Planning Consultation " actually prescribed " euthanasia for the elderly " because it included provisions that " would make it mandatory . . . that people [ on ] Medicare [ be told ] how to end their lives sooner ".
