Gain clarity in life’s healthcare choices
The best time to start navigating your future health needs is today.
Ematai :: If Not Now, When?
Gain clarity in life’s healthcare choices
The best time to start navigating your future health needs is today.
Ematai :: If Not Now, When?
“Whoever saves a single life is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world.”
Talmud
Dr. Erica Brown, Happier Endings
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Celebrating Life
Hillel the Elder, Ethics of our Fathers
Dr. Atul Gawande, Being Mortal
Dr. Louise Aronson, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
Rabbi Dr. Moshe David Tendler, Care of the Critically Ill
Rabbi Yisrael Kagan, “Chofetz Chaim,” Shem Olam
Guide to Passover Observance in Hospitals
Introducing Option 18
Recent Events
Principles of End-of-Life Care
We mourn the passing of Or Eshkar z"l, who died this week after being a terror victim in Tel Aviv two weeks ago. His family nobly donated his liver lobe, heart, liver, kidneys, lung. https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/03/21/victim-of-tel-aviv-shooting-dies-11-days-after-attack/?fbclid=IwAR0OOuaSq7qWgGOWREFqmoP9KQtWiLlSoZpVfXmu6dB3Fs-C_5I3TBD9MsM
A concerning report of the use of AI in making decisions regarding payments for hospital treatment.
Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need
An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a s...
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Important study about end-of-life care interventions where hospice care would be more appropriate https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/health/end-of-life-care-hospice.html