In 1994 Emanuel said in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, " Just because we are spending a lot of money on patients who die does not mean that we can save a lot of money on end of life care ."
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Schapiro R, Byock IR, Sheils Twohig J : Living and dying well with cancer : Successfully Integrating palliative care and cancer treatment, a monograph of Promoting Excellence in End of Life Care, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 2003.
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"Physician-assisted suicide was not disproportionately chosen by terminally ill patients who were poor, uneducated, uninsured, fearful of the financial consequences of their illnesses, or who lacked end of life care, " the report summary said.
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In July 2013, the Department of Health released a statement which stated the use of the LCP should be " phased out over the next 6-12 months and replaced with an individual approach to end of life care for each patient ".
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A Care Quality Commission inspection in 2015 found good safe care was provided across community inpatient, adult, urgent care, and children and young people s services, but end of life care services were rated requires improvement in relation to safety.
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AMSA has also launched programs in primary care, complementary and alternative medicine, international health, health policy, HIV / AIDS education, substance abuse prevention, breast cancer prevention, health services management and end of life care for medical and other health professions students.
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He has since become a researcher in the field of bioethics, publishing over 100 articles, book chapters, and reviews on a wide range of topics, including organ transplantation, genetics, stem cell research, end of life care, patient communication, and research ethics.
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Moreover, studies have shown that less than 1 percent of standard medical textbooks had any chapters that focused on things like end of life care, pain management, the psychological needs of patients with advanced disease, or the importance and role of the family in caring for a patient with serious disease.
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Although promoted as a compassionate option for the terminally ill, this bill will have a corrupting influence on public and private healthcare providers looking for ways to reduce the cost of end of life care . " In Assembly floor debate on the legislation in 2015, Grove stated : " Sorry, colleagues, pain is part of life ."
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He said, " I find it a little dispiriting, after a whole career's worth of work dedicated to improving care for people at the end of life, that now I'm'advocating euthanasia panels .'" Emanuel spent his career opposing euthanasia and received multiple awards for his efforts to improve end of life care.
