Medicine’s Role in the “Good Death”

The AMA's December 2013 issue (over 100 pages) of Virtual Mentor is devoted to Medicine’s Role in the "Good Death."  Here is the TOC: 

• Dying in the Twenty-First Century - Sophia Cedola and Kenneth Prager 


• Integrating Palliative Care with Disease-Modifying Therapy - Craig D. Blinderman 


• When Physicians and Surrogates Disagree about Futility - Kenneth Prager 


• Medical Students and Dying Patients - Audrey Tan


• The Flipped Classroom Paradigm for Teaching Palliative Care Skills - Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil and Preetha Basaviah 


• AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions on Care at the End of Life 


• Physician Characteristics Influence Referral to End-of-Life Care - May Hua 


• Serious Illness Communications Checklist - Rachelle E. Bernacki and Susan D. Block 


• The Appropriate Use of Increasingly Sophisticated Life-Sustaining Technology - Darryl C. Abrams, Kenneth Prager, Craig D. Blinderman, Kristin M. Burkart, and Daniel Brodie 


• Legal Constraints on Pursuit of a “Good Death” - Richard Weinmeyer 


• Legislative Attempts to Improve End-of-Life Care in New York State - Beth Popp 


• Whole-Person, Whole-Community Care at the End of Life - Christina Staudt 


• Treatment of Terminally Ill Patients According to Jewish Law - Rabbi Dov Linzer


• When Medicine Is Powerless - Thomas W. Laqueur